MagaSwaga Potent Notables

Notable: NSA contractor Hal Martin pleas guilty

@thecyberwire

Former #NSA contractor #HalMartin pleas guilty, charged with 20 counts of "unauthorized & willful retention of national defense information.” Prosecution didn’t present evidence that he gave 50 terabytes of #classifiedinformation to third parties.

https://twitter.com/thecyberwire/status/1117953255689064448

Notable: Alexandra Chalupa Digg

Alexandra Chalupa Digg

<Chalupa - [DNC operative]

>Ties to Ukrainian National a Unifying

>Theme in Early Attacks on Trump

>Leshchenko also served as a source for various individuals,

>including journalist Michael Isikoff and DNC operative

>Alexandra Chalupa. In addition, Leshchenko served as a

>direct source of information for Fusion GPS—and their

>hired researcher—former CIA contractor Nellie Ohr.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/ties-to-ukrainian-national-a-unifying-theme-in-early-attacks-on-trump_2872609.html

>Chalupa is tied directly to Obama (WH Visitor Logs)

>and several others [digging on these next]

https://qresear.ch/?q=Chalupa

Notable: woman jailed friday for attempted bombing in 2016 of ND cathedral

IS THE NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL FIRE MUSLIM REVENGE??? THIS MUSLIM WOMAN WAS JAILED TODAY FOR AN ATTEMPTED CAR BOMBING OF THE NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL IN 2016 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/breaking-on-friday-female-jihadi-jailed-over-attempted-car-bombing-outside-notre-dame-cathedral/

Notable: >>6195538 Scott Free, Good Fight, Q club - Master Trolling?

>>6195446

OK, anon, reposting this…

The Good Fight POTUS threat MAY BE MASTER TROLLING!!!!!!

This Anon seems to be the first who catches the Scott Free connection:

>>6172653 (pb)

That in itself doesn't establish much, but it may be a BIG clue if we ponder the "Scott Free" Q proof. To grasp how blatant the Q proof is, you have to be several levels deep already. You have to KNOW that WWG1WGA is a WELL-established Q keyword. And you have to KNOW that it is already ESTABLISHED fact that the term came from White Squall. (And you obviously have to KNOW that misspellings and capitalizations matter.) If you DO know all that, then the fact that typing "Scott Free" into Goolag brings up the wikipedia page for Scott Free Productions (producer of White Squall) is all you need to know.

OK… step back. Two different tweets appeared on Friday, April 12.

One was by @thegoodfight and the other was by @NSAgov.

(Posting that particular @NSAgov image since it has clues to stuff I DIDN'T dig myself… Look at what other anons have done on this…)

(Hint: I suspect they are connected!)

The @NSAgov twat has all sorts of stuff in it. I found two COMPLETELY disparate things myself.

One is that the blue Q links to a blue Q with "SOON" written on it that 8chan founder Fredrick Brennan said he received.

>>6159849 (You) (pb)

>>6159965 (You) (pb)

Another is that there is a shadow Pepe.

>>6160121 (You) (pb)

These two clues take us in COMPLETELY different directions, and both require some real Q-knowledge to get, especially when you start linking each clue to other connections. Add this to the stuff that other Anons are finding on this NSA twat, and it seems they REALLY put some work into this.

But why? Where does it go? I was absolutely puzzled as to what the point of that tweet was. SO much work to signal just another disinfo day or two…

But I think the ANSWER is that it is meant to CONTRAST with the dumbass NSA techs in "The Good Fight" clip, who simply COUNT KEYWORDS, something that can be easily done AUTOMATICALLY.

(continued)

Notable: >>6195394, >>6195452, >>6195434, >>6195487 Alleges Mack is Gillibrand's daughter…

https://twitter.com/TheSharpEdge1/status/1117816573434028032

Notable: Saudi Crown Prince MbS receives cmdr of US CentCom

>>6195201 @arabnews

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives the commander of the US Central Command Kenneth McKenzie Jr

https://twitter.com/arabnews/status/1117922944901099521

Notable: >>6195671 Zuckerberg sold $71m in FB stock

A fresh filing at 9:44pm-9:47pm EST

https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1326801.htm

Notable: BNL woke? lists 4/15 tragic habbenings

>>6194276

Never realized before tonight how important April 15 is to the cabal! Important enough they require US taxpayers to fill their coffers on this day!

@BreakingNLive

ON THIS DAY: 15th of April:

- Death of Abraham Lincoln

- The sinking of the Titanic

- Boston marathon bombings

- Notre Dame Cathedral Fire

4:37 PM - 15 Apr 2019

Notable: Timestamps have meaning Trump tweets to Q posts

Timestamps have meaning

Trump Twat search keyword Notre Dame

Think I found a connection on this one Posted at 7:25

Sync to Q post 725 EU Car Attack

Coincidence that Female Jihadi was jailed Friday for Car Bomb plot on Notre Dame.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/breaking-on-friday-female-jihadi-jailed-over-attempted-car-bombing-outside-notre-dame-cathedral/

Connection to today? Retaliation?

Notable: >>6194845 Shep Smith shuts down commentator suggesting ND fire wasn't an accident

Shep Smith, the left end of FNC cuts off an interview on Monday with a French commentator floating conspiracy theories about the fire burning at Notre Dame.

video

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/439017-fox-newss-shep-smith-shuts-down-french-commentator-who-suggested-notre-dame

Notable: B911 twat - guns in ATL. gangbaning as usual or FF habbening?

https://breaking911.com/developing-multiple-people-dead-in-separate-shootings-at-atlanta-area-gas-stations-heres-what-we-know/

Notable: keks. POTUS rolls on!!

Potus rolls on…

Notable: Q post vs DJT asking a "question" without a question mark.

You guys seen this?

Q post vs DJT asking a "question" without a question mark.

Notable: Pocahauntas want moratorium on oil and gas leases on her first day

No Beads or Blankets for you!

Crazy Feather Warren says the USA will go back to whale oil for lighting fires on her first day!

https://gcaptain.com/elizabeth-warren-drilling-moratorium/

Notable: Another attack on a MAGA man who happens to be from Togo, a legal immigrant

Another attack on a MAGA patriot of Togo ethnicity.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/15/togo-immigrant-maga-hat/

Notable: French Media confirms no construction workers at time of ND fire

Um, well then the fire https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/developing-french-media-confirms-there-were-no-construction-workers-at-notre-dame-cathedral-at-time-of-fire/must of started by divine intervention…

Notable: Michael, I mean Michelle Obama rippin on POTUS (Breitbart)

Big Mike is back, and he's salty! Attacks POTUS! This fug tranny bitch is in London trash-talking our president.

Ten million copies of his book sold. Wow! The cabal REALLY rewarded these two bitches for destroying America.

ARTICLE BEGINS HERE:

Former First Lady Michelle Obama bashed President Donald Trump in London on Sunday, reportedly comparing Trump to a “divorced dad” who is making America “sick.”

“We come from a broken family, we are a little unsettled,” Obama reportedly told Stephen Colbert while promoting her bestselling memoir, Becoming, before a crowd of about 15,000. “Sometimes you spend the weekend with divorced dad. That feels like fun but then you get sick. That is what America is going through. We are living with divorced dad.”

Obama also reportedly implied that Trump was never prepared to be president, saying the presidency reveals who someone truly is.

“We were always ourselves – the presidency does not change who you are, it reveals who you are,” Obama reportedly said in what the Independent said “appeared to be another dig” at Trump. “It is like swimming in the ocean with great waves. If you are not a great swimmer, you are not going to learn in the middle of a tidal wave. You are going to resort to your kicking and drowning and what you knew how to do in the pool.”

Obama also said America is currently in a “dark” place and there is “trepidation” and “anxiety” in America and all over the world because of Trump’s presidency.

“This may feel like a dark chapter but any story has its highs and lows but it continues. Yes, we are in a low but we have been lower. We have had tougher times, we have had more to fear. We have lived through slavery, the Holocaust and segregation,” she reportedly added. “We have always come out at the other end – better and stronger. We are moving in a direction of diversity and inclusion. No one ever said it would be easy. We are just in the throes of the uneasy path of change.”

Obama revealed in her memoir that she will “never forgive” Trump for fanning the birther controversy, and she again criticized Trump for questioning her husband’s place of birth and calling for his transcripts while saying her critics accused her of being an unpatriotic person who was “loud and rude and obnoxious.”

“I don’t know if there has been a president who has been accused of not being born in this country? Who has been asked to show his transcripts? Who has been accused of being unpatriotic? There was a lot of stuff that had not happened before that happened to us,” Obama reportedly said. “There was a time when people accused me of not loving my country. They accused me of being loud and rude and obnoxious.”

Obama, who told Oprah Winfrey that she cried for 30 minutes after Trump’s inauguration, then told the audience that they should take some “solace” in the fact that her husband was elected twice and, in her opinion, would have been elected for a third term had he been eligible.

“That really did happen. People would have voted for him for a third time. What is going on today is true but what happened before was also true. That should give us some solace at some level,” Obama said. “For eight years, the president they saw in their country was Barack Obama. He was somebody who people thought was smart and would do the right thing.”

Michelle Obama’s memoir has sold more than 10 million copies, and her publisher said it “could well become the most successful memoir ever.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/15/michelle-obama-rips-trump-divorced-dad-whos-making-america-sick/

Notable: >>6194095 Data breach at the FBI

https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1117856029985796096

Notable: Suicide at Arlington National Cemetary

Arlington National Cemetary

"We were deeply saddened to learn about the apparent suicide in the cemetery earlier today. Our thoughts are with the family at this time. We thank our first responders for their quick reaction to the incident. ANC continues to support the family during their time of need."

https://twitter.com/ArlingtonNatl/status/1117891782832836609

Notable: A brand too dirty to trademark — or for Supreme Court justices to say aloud

A brand too dirty to trademark — or for Supreme Court justices to say aloud

One of the most versatile profanities in the English language took center stage at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. But the nine members of the court and the attorneys arguing the case managed to avoid saying the word — or the company name, FUCT, that is its phonetic equivalent — aloud during an hourlong conversation about whether to strike down a federal trademark law that lets the government refuse to register marks deemed immoral or scandalous. The measure was the basis for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's rejection of Erik Brunetti's 2011 application to register his clothing brand's name, a move later upheld by the office's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

Afterward, Brunetti took his case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which found the federal government correctly deemed the mark (pronounced like the word "fucked") scandalous but said the law in question violates the Constitution's protection of freedom of speech. In lieu of referring to Brunetti's clothing brand directly, Supreme Court justices and attorneys alike opted for euphemistic references on Monday or spoke broadly about profanities and sexually explicit material. Malcolm Stewart, a lawyer with the Justice Department arguing for the Trump administration, referred to FUCT as the “equivalent of the profane past participle form of a well-known word of profanity and perhaps the paradigmatic word of profanity in our language.” Chief Justice John Roberts, meanwhile, called it “the vulgar word at the heart of the case.” But the motivation behind the name FUCT was not lost on at least some of the justices. “Come on, be serious,” Justice Samuel Alito told John Sommer, who argued the case on behalf of Brunetti. “You know what he’s trying to say.”

The court seemed divided as to whether the provision at issue, which has been on the books for more than a century, violated Brunetti’s free speech rights. Justice Stephen Breyer seemed particularly concerned a ruling in Brunetti’s favor would open the door for trademarks featuring racial slurs, which could then be displayed on advertisements on buses or newsstands. “Very often, the word involved in your case and the racial slur is not viewpoint,” Breyer said. “It is used to insult somebody, rather like fighting words, or it’s used to call attention to yourself.”

But others on the nine-member court acknowledged the law was broad and applied inconsistently by the Patent and Trademark Office. Some trademark applications, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, were turned down on dual grounds: because the marks were scandalous as well as because they resemble marks that are already registered. “If the mark is already registered,” Ginsburg said, “then it’s not scandalous.”

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, for example, declined to register FUCT but allowed FCUK, an acronym for the U.K.-based clothing chain French Connection. How, Justice Neil Gorsuch asked, is a “reasonable citizen” supposed to know how the government will treat their mark? “Is it a flip of a coin?” he asked.

The wording of the statute is “very broad,” said Justice Elena Kagan, who suggested the dilemma could be addressed legislatively. “If Congress wants to pass a statute that’s narrower, that’s focused on vulgarity or profanity, then Congress can do that,” she said.

The Trump administration argues that in refusing to approve trademark applications with scandalous or immoral material, the government is “protecting unwilling viewers from material that they find offensive.” A ruling from the justices is expected by the end of June.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/a-brand-too-dirty-to-trademark-or-for-supreme-court-justices-to-say-aloud

Notable: A Breitbart article regarding Biden as Obama's 3rd term

This one fell through the cracks. Its interesting because its funny. Trump won the presidency because people were sick and tired of the Obamas and the Clintons. Now the creepy Mr. Sniffy wants to run his campaign as Obama's third term…imagine that!

ARTICLE BEGINS HERE:

Former vice president Joe Biden is expected to enter the 2020 presidential race soon — as Barack Obama’s third term.

The Associated Press reported Sunday: “Joe Biden is finalizing the framework for a White House campaign that would cast him as an extension of Barack Obama’s presidency and political movement. He’s betting that the majority of Democratic voters are eager to return to the style and substance of that era — and that they’ll view him as the best option to lead the way back.”

In that, Biden may face two challenges. One is that Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 partly by campaigning against Obama’s third term, as embodied by Hillary Clinton. The other is that the Obamas seems undecided as to whether Biden represents them; several Obama alumni are already supporting other candidates.

Barack Obama: ‘We Can’t Label Everybody Disturbed By Immigration As Racist’

Biden was fading to the political margins in 2008, having crashed out of the Democratic presidential primary rather early, when Obama picked him to be his running mate. Biden, it was thought, brought years of experience that Obama lacked, plus foreign policy credentials. The Obama campaign also thought having a middle-aged white male on the ticket would appeal to the white working-class voters whom the strategists feared might not want to elect a black man.

In his eight years as vice president, Biden was faithful to Obama’s left-wing agenda — and has a controversial record:

Obamacare — the “big f*cking deal.” Biden’s infamous “hot mic” moment in 2010 captured his enthusiasm for Obama’s signature domestic policy — which raised health insurance premiums dramatically, canceled millions of individual insurance policies, and failed to cover everyone, as promised. Unlike then-chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who preferred a more incremental policy, Biden never offered any opposition of Obama’s radical, deceptive approach.

Iran deal — selling the policy. Biden not only supported the Obama administration’s faulty negotiations with the Tehran regime, but he also played a leading role in trying to convince Jewish groups to support the ill-fated deal. That effort was part of what Obama national security aide Ben Rhodes later called the “echo chamber” — a scheme to fool the country into accepting the deal, and for avoiding ratification in the Senate, as the Constitution requires.

Creating “distance” with Israel — “I condemn.” In March 2010, while Biden was visiting Jerusalem, a minor functionary in the Israeli government announced plans for housing in a Jewish neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem. Obama seized the opportunity to create “distance” with Israel — and Biden was the eager messenger. “I condemn the decision by the government of Israel,” Biden said, undermining America’s most loyal ally in the Middle East.

Going easy on China — the Hunter Biden scandal. As Breitbart News’ Peter Schweizer has documented in his book Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, flew to China on Air Force Two in 2013 and emerged ten days later with $1 billion in investment from the Chinese government into his private equity firm. Neither Biden has never explained how or why the deal happened.

Exploiting race — “Put y’all back in chains.” During the 2012 presidential campaign, Biden told an audience of predominantly black voters that the Republican candidate would “put y’all back in chains” if he won. That remark sought to create and exploit racial tensions that the administration had already fanned with its response to the Trayvon Martin controversy in Florida. It was also just one of many racially insensitive remarks in Biden’s career….:"

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/14/biden-obama-third-term/

Notable: Dem hopeful Jones Raises Only 12 Percent From Alabama Residents In First Quarter

oh shite, it’s true, the dems can’t get any support if you gave them a girdle or support hose, or whatever it was my mom used to talk about. Sad, considering Jones raised and huge sums of foreign and out of state donations the last time. I think the democrats are on a slide

Jones Raises Only 12 Percent From Alabama Residents In First Quarter

Only 12 percent of Democratic senator Doug Jones's first quarter fundraising haul came from his home-state of Alabama.

Jones, the most vulnerable senate Democrat seeking reelection in 2020, raised more than $1.64 million during the first quarter of this year, according to campaign finance reports made public by the Federal Elections Commission on Monday. Of the total, more than $918,000 came from large individual contributors, while slightly more than $235,00 came from small dollar donors. The filings indicate the rest of Jones's first quarter haul (more than $425,000) came from PACs affiliated with large corporations and liberal advocacy groups based outside of Alabama.

Jones's fundraising numbers appear healthy at first glance, especially when compared to the fact that his most high-profile Republican challenger raised $1.2 million in the same period. As noted by the conservative Alabama news website Yellowhammer, however, the numbers may not necessarily translate into support with voters.

A breakdown of Jones's large individual contributions show that only 12 percent (a little more than $107,000) came from Alabama residents. In contrast, Jones raised more than $150,000 (17 percent) from California residents and more than $148,000 (16 percent) from residents of New York. A number of the out-of-state donations came from prominent liberal activists like Jonathan Soros, son of the billionaire Democratic donor George Soros.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/jones-raises-only-12-percent-from-alabama-residents-in-first-quarter/

Notable: Julian Assange affidavit unsealed

Julian Assange affidavit unsealed

An affidavit detailing the alleged crimes of Julian Assange was unsealed Monday, revealing more about what investigators knew regarding the WikiLeaks founder’s communications with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. Assange, 47, was arrested Thursday at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in connection to a charge in the U.S. of conspiring to hack into a Pentagon computer network in 2010. A possible arrest and extradition to the U.S. had been expected in recent months after prosecutors mistakenly revealed in November that the Justice Department had secretly filed criminal charges against Assange. Following a U.K. Supreme Court ruling that he should be extradited to Sweden for questioning over sexual assault charges, Assange sought and was granted political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2012. He remained there until metropolitan London police arrested him last week. The disclosure of a sealed indictment against Assange, which came during special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, led to speculation that it was related to WikiLeaks’ role in disseminating emails stolen from Democratic officials during the 2016 election. The U.S. intelligence community believes Russian hackers were behind the theft.

But the indictment, unsealed last week, revealed Assange had not been charged in connection with Russian interference in the election nor had he been charged for publishing government secrets contained in the documents leaked by Manning almost a decade ago. Instead, prosecutors charged him with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion by agreeing to help Manning crack a password that would have given her access to a classified military network. The single-count conspiracy indictment against Assange carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, but national security experts speculate that there could be a slew of additional charges — including espionage — leveled at Assange if and when he is extradited to the United States.

FBI special agent Megan Brown wrote in the 26-page affidavit filed in December 2017 Assange and Manning allegedly tried to gain access to the Pentagon network, but “it remains unknown whether Manning and Assange were successful in cracking the password.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/julian-assange-affidavit-unsealed

Assange Affidavit

https://www.scribd.com/document/406384145/Assange-Affidavit#from_embed

Notable: State Department Veteran: Iraq Wrecked Me For Nothing (Zerohedge)

State Department Veteran: Iraq Wrecked Me For Nothing

"Most everything that happened in Iraq and Afghanistan has gone un-investigated, unheard of, or unpunished. Ancient History…"

I recently spoke to some college students who, I realized, were in fifth grade when I got on a plane to Iraq. They now study that stuff in history classes like “Opportunities and Errors: 21st-Century America in the Middle East.” About halfway through our conversation, I realized it’s coming up on 10 years since I first went to Iraq. Now that’s real history.

I was a Foreign Service Officer then, a diplomat, embedded with the U.S. Army at a series of forward operating bases and in charge of a couple of reconstruction teams, small parts of a complex failure to rebuild the Iraq we wrecked. I ended up writing a book about it all, explaining in tragicomic terms how we failed (those “Errors”).

The book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People was—and wasn’t—well-received. People laughed at the funny parts, but my message—it didn’t work and here’s why—was largely dissipated at the time (2012) by government and media propaganda centered on The Surge. That was David Petraeus’s plan to pacify the Sunnis and push al-Qaeda away, while clearing, holding, and building across the country, apparently to make room so ISIS and the Iranians could move in.

Meanwhile, the new American president, elected in part based on his “no” vote on the war in 2003, proclaimed it all a victory and started bringing the troops home even while I was still in Iraq. Meanwhile my employer, the U.S. Department of State, was unhappy with my book. After a year-long process, State pushed me into early retirement. My career was history.

Iraq wrecked me, even though I somehow didn’t expect it to. I was foolish to think that traveling to the other side of the world and spending a year seeing death and poverty, bearing witness to a war, learning how to be mortared at night and deciding it didn’t matter that I might die before breakfast, wasn’t going to change me. Of the military units I was embedded in, three soldiers did not come home; all died at their own hands. Around us, Iraqis blew themselves up alongside children. Everyone was a potential killer and a potential target. I did this at age 49, on antidepressants and with a good family waiting back home. I cannot imagine what it would have done to 18-year-old me. And I had it easier than most, and much easier than many.

People asked in line at Trader Joe’s and in interviews on semi-important TV shows, “Was it all worth it to you?” I always answered yes. I’m not important, I said, but the story is. And now we’re making the same mistakes in Afghanistan. The only way to even start to justify it was to think there might be some meaning behind it all. It didn’t do anything for me but fill my soul with vodka but maybe somehow it…helped?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-15/state-department-veteran-iraq-wrecked-me-nothing

Notable: moar Military tweets with [spelling errors]

Heres all the military tweets I've found so far with spelling errors

(Found 2 more)

Notable: Vulgar Words Should Be Protected by Trademark Laws, Supreme Court Hears (Epoch)

Vulgar Words Should Be Protected by Trademark Laws, Supreme Court Hears

WASHINGTON—A disputed trademark that is pronounced the same way as a vulgar swear word constitutes speech that should be protected by the government on First Amendment grounds, a lawyer for a clothing designer told the Supreme Court.

The hour-long oral arguments on April 15 took on a surreal air as justices performed a kind of linguistic ballet, carefully avoiding saying the trademark aloud.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) rejected a trademark application for the word “FT” (letters omitted) by clothes-maker and artist Erik Brunetti, who has said FT stands for “Friends U Can’t Trust.”

The designs include shirts, hoodies, and jackets.

Among the shirts are one with a decal featuring an enlarged $100 bill featuring a portrait of Osama bin Laden; others appear with the phrases “We are f**t” and “Fight crime; buy a gun.” Another features a photo of a 1599 painting by Milanese artist Caravaggio depicting the biblical character, Judith, severing the head of the invading Assyrian general Holofernes.

The agency found the trademark contains “immoral or scandalous” matter prohibited under the Trademark Act of 1946, also known as the Lanham Act.

The rejection was upheld by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board but reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which ruled that preventing Brunetti from trademarking the acronym violated his First Amendment rights. The PTO appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, which, on Jan. 4, agreed to hear the case.

In a Dec. 15, 2017, decision, the circuit court found that the board was correct in determining that the trademark was immoral or scandalous but that the statute’s “bar on registering immoral or scandalous marks is an unconstitutional restriction of free speech.”

During oral arguments, several justices suggested that the refusal to register the trademark, a legal protection that would give Brunetti more power to crack down on counterfeiters copying his designs, seemed arbitrary.

Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm L. Stewart described the phonetic equivalent of a form of the F-swear word as something that “would be perceived by a substantial segment of the public as the equivalent of the profane past participle form of a well-known word of profanity and perhaps the paradigmatic word of profanity in our language.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/vulgar-words-should-be-protected-by-trademark-laws-supreme-court-hears_2881127.html

Notable: Center for American Progress throwing Think Progress under the bus (Freebeacon)

This is hilarious, Center for American Progress throwing Think Progress under the bus, a company that they own and fund. Simply because is Sanders whining of unfair coverage. Yep they will even canabalize their own companies that they pay

Center for American Progress CEO Throws ThinkProgress Under Bus After Sanders Criticism

BY: Alex Griswold

April 15, 2019 4:25 pm

Liberal think tank Center for American Progress (CAP) publicly

distanced itself from a video produced by ThinkProgress, an outlet owned and funded by CAP

In a Saturday letter addressed to the CAP board of directors, 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders complained about ThinkProgress's coverage of his campaign, charging that he had been subjected to unfair "personal attacks."

Sanders cited in particular an article highlighting the fact that the socialist Vermont senator is now a millionaire, which the ThinkProgress writer wrote was "very off-brand and embarrassing." He also complained about a video which noted that Sanders had dropped his trademark denunciation of "millionaires and billionaires" after making his first million, switching instead to "billionaires."

"Center for American Progress leader Neera Tanden repeatedly calls for unity while simultaneously maligning my staff and supporters and belittling progressive ideas," Sanders wrote. "I worry that the corporate money CAP is receiving is inordinately and inappropriately influencing the role it is playing in the progressive movement."

https://freebeacon.com/politics/center-for-american-progress-ceo-throws-thinkprogress-under-bus-after-sanders-criticism/

Notable: Ex Volkswagen CEO charged with fraud in Germany (NBC)

https:// www.nbcwashington.com/news/business/Ex-Volkswagen-CEO-Charged-With-Fraud-in-Germany-508590401.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DCBrand

Notable: Fox News anchors cut off guests speculating about cause of Notre Dame fire (DCExaminer)

Fox News anchors cut off guests speculating about cause of Notre Dame fire

Two Fox News anchors cut off guests who tried to talk about unfounded suspicions about the origins of the Notre Dame fire on Monday. Media critic and deputy mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine Philippe Karsenty's line was cut after he insinuated the fire was a terrorist attack, while Catholic League president Bill Donohue was shut down after he said he was suspicious the fire was related to other church burnings.

“It’s like a 9/11, a French 9/11,” Karsenty said during an appearance with Fox News’ Shepard Smith. “It’s a big shock. This church was there for more than 850 years. You need to know that for the past years, we’ve had churches desecrated each and every week all over France. Of course, you will hear the story of the politically — the political correctness, which will tell you it’s probably an accident.”

Although Smith said he would “love to hear” definitive information on the origins of the fire, Karsenty stuck to conjecture. “No, sir, we’re not doing that here, not now, not on my watch,” Smith said. “The man on the phone with us has absolutely no information of any kind about the origin of this fire and neither do I.” “The fire investigators will at some point come to a determination about what caused this and conspiracy theories about anything are worthless and in many cases counterproductive and injurious to society,” Smith said. “And those who entertain them are not acting in the best interests of the people of this planet.”

Karsenty was previously convicted of defamation after he blamed France 2, a French television network, for orchestrating the death of a Palestinian child.

In the next hour, Donahue’s interview with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto was cut short after he openly speculated how the fire originated, citing other churches and tabernacles that have been targeted and destroyed recently. “Well, Neil, if it is an accident, it’s a monumental tragedy,” Donohue said during an interview with Cavuto. “But forgive me for being suspicious.” “Just last month, a 17th century church was set on fire in Paris,” he said. “We have seen tabernacles knocked down, crosses have been torn down, statues have been smashed.” Even after Cavuto reminded Donahue to refrain from sharing any inklings on the fire, Donahue didn’t stop sharing his opinions. “I’m sorry, when I find out that the Eucharist is being destroyed and excrement is being smeared on crosses, this is what’s going on now,” Donahue said.

Cavuto then ended the call citing “conjectures” on the fire were not welcome. “I do want to let people know, and again we’re not trying to be rude to our guests here, there is so much we do not know about what happened here,” Cavuto said. “We do know four hours ago, something started here. There are incidents that have been raised against the Catholic Church on popular tourist sites in and around Paris, no stranger to attacks, but another leap to take views like that when we don’t know."

Officials are still unsure what prompted the fire at approximately 7 p.m. on Monday, although authorities say a preliminary investigation suggests it was accidental. The cathedral’s 300-foot spire crumbled in the fire, but officials say the cathedral's iconic twin bell towers will survive. Construction of the cathedral began in 1163 and wrapped up in 1345. The cathedral endured some destruction from the French Revolution during the 1790s, but was repaired starting in 1845.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fox-news-anchors-cut-off-guests-speculating-about-cause-of-notre-dame-fire

Notable: The #USNavy photos of day: USS Abe Lincoln, USS Wasp, USS D. Eisenhower

>>6192982 @USNavy

The #USNavy photos of day: #USSAbrahamLincoln transits the #StraitOfGibralter, #USSWasp changes command, #USSDwightDEisenhower conducts flight operations, and an engine test lights up the night!

#USSAbrahamLincoln transits the #StraitOfGibralter, entering the #MediterraneanSea as to continue operations in the @USNavyEurope area of responsibility.

https://twitter.com/USNavy/status/1117896654391132161

Notable: Edgelords in Copenhagen throw Quran, Religion of Peace ensues (VoiceOfEurope)

Notable.

Copenhagen in flames after protesters throw the Quran on the ground.

Violent riots erupted in the Danish capital on Sunday when the right-wing politician and Islam critic Rasmus Paludan, leader of the party Stram Kurs (Strict Course), held a demonstration in the district of Nørrebro, Denmark’s Radio reports.

An angry crowd of counter-protesters showed up and attacked Paludan’s demonstration, and when the police intervened, they were attacked as well.

“We had been expecting counter-protests, but not that it would lead to the type of unrest that we have seen today”, said Copenhagen police chief Jørgen Bergen Skov at a press conference in the evening, while the riots were still ongoing.

People threw, among other things, paving stones, bicycles and plastic chairs against the police, and footage from Nørrebro shows how cars and other property are ablaze.

The Police used tear gas and drew weapons, however, without firing any shots. On Monday morning, the police announced that 15 people had been arrested during Sunday’s riots, which also spread to other districts in Copenhagen.

Kvällsposten states that bystanders were provoked when Rasmus Paludan and a party colleague threw a Quran back and forth and demonstratively dropped it several times.

“We were playing with the Quran for about two minutes before two people who looked like Somalis attacked me. One of them took the Quran”, Paludan told Ekstrabladet.

It is not the first time that Rasmus Paludan demonstrates in an area where many Muslims live, and he has previously caused quite a storm by burning the Quran.

Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen tweeted that he dissociates himself from Paladins “pointless provocations”, but urged people to meet him with arguments rather than violence.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/04/copenhagen-in-flames-after-right-wing-protesters-provocatively-throw-the-quran-on-the-ground/

Notable: >>6192841 Notre Dame (University) fire of 1879, Q#1879 "House of God", Catholic church sex scandal

>>6192880

Notable: @USMC: In The Shadows

US MARINES

https://twitter.com/USMC/status/1117940669320970241?s=19

in the shadows

(I'm adding the Navy tweet again because its relevant)

Notable: >>6193223 UK Pedophile spared prison

Pedophile with grotesque images of child and animal abuse walks free – again

George Hobson of Gosforth, UK, a pedophile, has somehow been spared from going to prison AGAIN “despite admitting to downloading hundreds of vile images for a second time.”1 And yes, his stash included the most serious of child images, those labeled Category A, some of which showed penetrative activity. All told, he had 700 indecent images.

After the court heard Hobson admit he was attracted to children, and after he admitted to the images he had (which breached a suspended sentence for a similar offense), a judge spared him citing his “highly unusual circumstances”.1

WHAT?

“He was handed the exact same sentence – 16 months suspended for two years – as he received following his first conviction in 2015. That was after his barrister claimed the defendant would struggle in prison.

‘It is undoubtedly the case that he would not cope well,’ claimed Paul Caufield, mitigating.”1

He’s apparently an extremely isolated, 33-year-old loner with low intelligence who enjoys existing in the virtual world; all the more reason to keep him away from the public and its children. (Although he did tell the court heard he felt “disgusted” by his actions.)

Judge Spragg said: “I want a prison sentence hanging over his head. If he does not continue with his significant progress….he is not going to get a second chance.”1

We shall see.

https://www.healthnutnews.com/pedophile-with-grotesque-images-of-child-and-animal-abuse-walks-free-again/

Notable: Maryland Man Sentenced to 9 Years in Federal Prison for Distribution of Child Pornography (DOJ)

Maryland Man Sentenced to Nine Years in Federal Prison for Distribution of Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/maryland-man-sentenced-nine-years-federal-prison-distribution-child-pornography

Notable: Saint-Sulpice church in France also caught fire, less than a month ago

Just a coincidence, nothing to see here.

Notable: Lindsey Graham says he will push an asylum reform bill (Breitbart)

Sorry if previously posted, but I didn't see it in the notables. Not one Dem willing to work with POTUS to change the immigration laws. Wonder how far Lindsey will get with this…?

ARTICLE BEGINS HERE:

"Judiciary chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham says he will push an asylum reform bill that will help block the Central American migration into the United States.

“The president has correctly identified the [migration] crisis at the border, now it’s time to have a legislative solution,” Graham told Fox News on Sunday. “You need to change our laws for this to stop, so I’ll be introducing a package — and hopefully with Democratic support — that will change our asylum laws.”

The bill would end the 20-day “Flores” limit on the detention of migrants with children which was imposed in 2015 by progressive California judges and would end a 2008 law which bars the easy return of children and youths to Central America. The bill will also raise the “Credible Fear” standard so that migrants with weak claims for asylum are not allowed into the United States to file for asylum, he said.

However, Graham also suggested that the Democrats will want something in return.

“The administration is going around Congress talking to Democrats about what they want if we do change the laws, what would they like in return,” Graham said. “I’m going to try to find a compromise here … hopefully, we will get some Democratic support.”

So far, no Democrats have suggested they would agree to reform the Flores decision, the Credible Fear standard, or 2008 ‘TVPRA’ law, partly because those rules have allowed and encouraged the Central American migration into the United States.

Graham said he will draft a fix with President Donald Trump and with Wisconsin Republic Sen. Ron Johnson, who chairs the homeland security committee, and then ask Democrats to craft a compromise. “We’ll try to figure out a deal that will stop this madness.”

However, the compromise suggested by Graham may be a compromise between goals of the Democratic and Republican establishments, not a compromise among the public’s rival goals of ending the inflow and of welcoming migrants.

Establishment leaders in both parties can chart a compromise that would deliver more migrants to serve as cheap workers and future voters. But the divided public would only welcome some migrants — providing the migrants do not hurt Americans’ wages, drive up rents, crowd schools, or spike crime.

In 2013, Graham and Senators in both parties drafted a bipartisan compromise of their establishment goals in the “Gang of Eight” amnesty. Those goals were championed by Democrats but were strongly opposed by Americans, and in November 2014, voters gave the GOP an extra nine seats, so keeping New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and other Democrats in the minority for at least six years.

Graham is a strong backer of cheap labor migration. In January 2018, Graham said he wants to import more workers for skilled and unskilled jobs:

We need more legal immigration … I don’t want green cards just for computer engineers. If you are out there working in the fields, if you are a construction worker, I want some of those people to have a way to stay here, because if you are running a business and you have a guest worker who is really good, and would add value to our country, I want them to have a chance to get a green card. I just don’t want to be a country in the future of just computer engineers or high-tech people.

Johnson also favors much greater use of imported workers.

The Central American migrant inflow will continue until the laws are changed, Graham said. In Central America, “the word is out … If you bring a minor child with you, you’ll never get deported,” he said. “We need to change that narrative.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/15/lindsey-graham-promises-bill-to-block-central-american-migration/

Notable: NYT Best Sellers, or "Staff Picks?"… Valerie Jarrett's book listed despite low Amazon ranking

Obama Adviser Valerie Jarrett’s Book Is Ranked 1,030 on Amazon Yet it Made the New York Time’s Best Seller List

http://tennesseestar.com/2019/04/15/obama-adviser-valerie-jarretts-book-is-ranked-1030-on-amazon-yet-it-made-the-new-york-times-best-seller-list/

Notable: Notre Dame buttresses nicknamed "The Forest" (DailyMail). Q#1007 Connection?

The buttresses in the Notre Dame Cathedral are named "The Forest"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6925435/Why-850-year-old-Notre-Dame-Cathedral-incredibly-flammable.html

Notable: Balcony kid killer charged with attempted murder (TennesseeStar)

Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda Charged with Attempted Murder After Throwing 5-Year-Old Boy Over Third-Story Balcony at Mall of America

http://tennesseestar.com/2019/04/15/emmanuel-deshawn-aranda-charged-with-attempted-murder-in-after-throwing-5-year-old-boy-over-third-story-balcony-at-mall-of-america/

Notable: Owl-logo Kering Foundation loves to help kids and women… dig

François-Henri Pinault’s Kering foundation

Nice owl logo

They love to ‘help’ women and kids worldwide…

http://keringfoundation.org

Notable: >>6192596 List of US Sanctuary Cities and States

A List of Sanctuary Cities and States

https://www.toddstarnes.com/show/a-list-of-sanctuary-cities-and-states/

CALIFORNIA

Alameda County

Berkley

Contra Costa County

Los Angeles County

Los Angeles

Monterey County

Napa County

Oakland

Riverside County

Sacramento County

San Bernardino County

San Diego County

San Francisco

San Francisco County

San Mateo County

Santa Ana

Santa Clara County

Santa Cruz County

Sonoma County

Watsonville

COLORADO

Arapahoe County

Aurora

Boulder County

Denver

Denver County

Garfield County

Grand County

Jefferson County

Larimer County

Mesa County

Pitkin County

Pueblo County

Routt County

San Miguel County

Weld County

CONNECTICUT East Haven & Hartford

FLORIDA Alachua County & Clay County

GEORGIA Clayton County & DeKalb County

'IOWA

Benton County

Cass County

Franklin County

Fremont County

Greene County

Ida County

Iowa City

Iowa City, Johnson County

Jefferson County

Marion County

Monona County

Montgomery County

Pottawattamie County

Sioux County

ILLINOIS. Chicago & Cook County

KANSAS. Butler County & Harvey County

LOUISIANA. New Orleans

MASSACHUSETTAS

Amherst

Boston

Cambridge

Concord

Lawrence

Newton

Northhampton

Somerville

MARYLAND. Baltimore, Montgomery County & Prince George's County

MICHIGAN. Ingham County, Kalamazzo & Kent County, Wayne County

MINNESOTA. Hennepin County

MISSISSIPPI Jackson

NEBRASKA. Hall County & Sarpy County

New Jersey

Middlesex County

Newark

Ocean County

Union County

NEW MEXICO. Bernalillo County, New Mexico County Jails, San Miguel

NEVADA. Washoe County

New York

Albany

Franklin County

Ithaca

Nassau County

New York City

Omondaga County

St. Lawrence County

Wayne County

NORTH CAROLINA. Buncombe, Durham, Forsyth, Mecklenburg, Orange & Wake Counties

OHIO Franklin County

OREGON

Baker County

Clackamas County

Clatsop County

Coos County

Crook County

Curry County

Deschutes County

Douglas County

Gilliam County

Grant County

Hood River County

Jackson County

Jefferson County

Josephine County

Lane Countyn

Lincoln County

Linn County

Malheur County

Marion County

Marlon County

Multnomah County

Polk County

Sherman County

Springfield

Tillamok County

Umatilla County

Union County

Wallowa County

Wasco County

Washington County

Wheeler County

Yamhill County

PENNSYLVANIA

Bradford County

Bucks County

Butler County

Chester County

Clarion County

Delaware County

Erie County

Franklin County

Lebanon County

Lehigh County

Lycoming County

Montgomery County

Montour County

Perry County

Philadelphia

Pike County

Westmoreland County

RHODE ISLAND Providence, Rhode Island Dept of Corrections

VIRGINIA. Arlington, Chesterfield & Fairfax Counties

VERMONT Burlington, Monteplier, & Winooski

WASHINGTON

Chelan County

Clallam County

Clark County

Cowlitz County

Franklin County

Jefferson County

King County

Kitsap County

Pierce County

San Juan County

Skagit County

Snohomish County

Spokane County

Seattle

Thurston County

Walla Walla County

Wallowa County

Whatcom County

Yakima County

Notable: >>6192270, >>6192297 @USArmy tweet with name of Church Architect, Jo[h]n Welch

@USArmy

The #USArmy's version of a room with a view.

#ArmyLife

Photo by Spc. Jon Welch

https://twitter.com/USArmy/status/1117911756943179776

Notable: Who is walking around in Notre Dame as fire burns? (Video)

French Media reported there were no construction workers at the time of the fire at cathédrale Notre Dame & the Church was closed So WHY is there a video of person at one of the the 2 towers half an hour after the start of the fire?

Notable: POTUS SCHEDULE - Lid closed at 19:01

POTUS SCHEDULE - Lid closed at 19:01

Q team & POTUS knew they were going to do this.

The Q posts with 19:01 in the time stamp have "burned" & "Gold" in them

Switching to private comms (lid)

Notable: Jerusalem's Masjid Al-Aqsa Mosque fire burns at the same time as Notre Dame

Jerusalem's Masjid Al-Aqsa Fire Burns at the Same Time As Flames Engulf Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

> https://www.newsweek.com/notre-dame-fire-aqsa-mosque-1397259

Notable: Prayingmedic finances digg?

Info regarding Praying Medics WA State Non Profit

He lives and AZ

He created this 'non profit' / charity in 2018

Tax Fraud // funneling Payments for Q videos through this non profit??

www.bizapedia.com/wa/praying-medic.html

www.northwestcorporateservices.com/

Notable: Goldman Sachs to layoff 98 bank employees in New York (Reuters)

Goldman Sachs to layoff 98 bank employees in New York

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc plans to lay off nearly 100 employees in New York in the coming months, according to a filing the bank made with New York state that was made public on Monday.

The 98 employees are being let go for “economic” reasons and their final day will be between May 29 and Sept. 28, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification that the bank filed with the New York State Department of Labor on Feb. 19.

It was not immediately clear in what division of the bank the employees worked, but they have all been notified about the layoffs, according to a source familiar with the filing.

Goldman Sachs is known for an annual all-staff review in which the bank fires around 5 percent of employees for reasons like missing performance targets. The bank has said that this allows it to make new hires.

The bank employs around 36,000 people worldwide.

Goldman Sachs reported a 13 percent slump in first-quarter revenue earlier on Monday. Declines in trading, underwriting, investment management and investing and lending revenues all contributed to the bank missing analysts’ expectations.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-goldman-sachs-layoffs/goldman-sachs-to-layoff-98-bank-employees-in-new-york-idUSKCN1RR29Q

But muh EPS beat!

Notable: Clinton "horrible", "highly unusual" FBI exploitation re Trump Russia (WashTimes)

'Horrible': Clinton loyalists exploited Obama's FBI to spread Russia conspiracy stories about Trump

Hillary Clinton loyalists fed the FBI’s upper echelon an assortment of anti-Donald Trump criminal accusations during the 2016 campaign and his presidency, according to a string of interview transcripts released in recent weeks.

James A. Baker, former FBI general counsel who participated on the receiving end, testified that the situation was “horrible” and “highly unusual.”

At least 10 of Mrs. Clinton’s supporters directly or via middlemen told the bureau tales about Russia-Trump conspiracies. It appears to be an unprecedented effort by a presidential campaign and the party in power to count on the FBI to knock out the other party’s candidate and president.

The transcripts create the picture of an FBI not always following expected norms as it activated an unofficial conveyor belt to make sure the allegations reached the counterintelligence division. It opened an investigation into the Trump campaign on July 31, 2016. In October, it began wiretapping at least one Republican while dispatching possibly multiple undercover sources to spy.

In the end, the Democratic Party-financed charges fell flat. Special counsel Robert Mueller reported last month that his 22-month investigation failed to establish a Trump-Russia conspiracy to interfere in the election by computer hacking and social media trolling.

Attorney General William P. Barr testified to Congress that he personally is reviewing how the FBI began the Trump investigation. He said that Obama officials spied on the Republican’s campaign and that he is trying to determine whether it was justified.

Mr. Baker, a former top legal adviser to bureau Director James B. Comey, testified last year to a House judiciary oversight task force that he became skeptical of anti-Trump data.

“I had a jaundiced eye about everything, yes,” Mr. Baker said. “I had skepticism about all this stuff. I was concerned about all of this. This whole situation was horrible, and it was novel and we were trying to figure out what to do, and it was highly unusual.”

A transcript of his closed-door testimony was released by Rep. Doug Collins, Georgia Republican. He has posted a series of such transcripts from an investigation that ended in January when Democrats took control of the House and turned all their guns on President Trump.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/14/hillary-clinton-allies-fed-fbi-donald-trump-russia/

Notable: Judicial Watch uncovers Pelosi cash

Judicial Watch

🔎

‏Verified account @JudicialWatch

JW obtained records through our FOIA lawsuits with the Air Force detailing $134,587.81 plus $50,000 for an advance of funds for an “escort officer” for a total of $184.587.81 for Nancy Pelosi’s 2015 congressional delegation (CODEL) to Italy & to Ukraine.

3:30 PM - 15 Apr 2019

https://twitter.com/JudicialWatch/status/1117918019399892993

Total Air Force Expenses $184,587.81

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it obtained documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Air Force detailing $134,587.81 plus $50,000 for an advance of funds for an “escort officer” for a total of $184.587.81 for then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) Congressional delegation (CODEL) to Italy and Ukraine in 2015.

Judicial Watch filed a December 2015 FOIA lawsuit after the Air Force failed to respond to an August 2015 request (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Defense (No 1:15-cv-02236)) for:

All records regarding mission taskings of flights escorting members of Congress

All records concerning transportation costs for transporting members of Congress

All passenger manifests (DD-2131) for transporting members of Congress

All weekly travel reports for members of Congress

The documents show that from July 30 to August 6, Pelosi took a trip to Milan, Rome and Naples, Italy, and Kiev, Ukraine, for herself, her husband, several members of congress and their spouses. The Italy trip included Milan, Rome and Naples with visits to the Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel, Duomo and viewing Da Vinci’s “Last Supper.”

The documents also show the Air Force’s negative response to a Pelosi staff request for a specific crew for Pelosi’s flight. An official notes that it: “would be a disastrous precedent to set even if it were possible.” The Air Force further points out: “Our ARC crews have plenty to balance already with military duties and their civilian employers.”

The documents also detail a CODEL trip for Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO), who traveled commercial flights to Asia, including Tokyo and Okinawa, Japan; Seoul, Korea; plus Beijing and Hong Kong, China. This trip, with flights and per diems, cost at least $26,009.03.

“Speaker Pelosi has a demonstrated record of abusing the perks of office that give her access to military luxury travel paid for by taxpayers,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

Judicial Watch previously uncovered that Pelosi’s military travel cost the United States Air Force $2,100,744.59 over one two-year period — $101,429.14 of which was for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol.

Judicial Watch’s work exposing Pelosi’s travel abuses resulted in her successor John Boehner declining to use Air Force luxury jets to travel to his Ohio congressional district.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-documents-detail-nancy-pelosis-185000-codel-to-italy-and-ukraine-in-2015

Notable: POTUS visits VIP Anon's hometown in MN

>>6188593 (pb)

>>6188663 (pb)

https://twitter.com/Q_ANONBaby/status/1117875062315470848

https://twitter.com/Q_ANONBaby/status/1048079911813107713

Anons if POTUS is in VIPAnon's hometown that is YUGE!

IT IS COMING.

VIPAnon figures in the CRUCIAL "ask the Q" drop.

He ASKED the Q and the answer was obviously YES, and we all know the answer is YES. It made no difference. The fake news still lies.

The Q is a CUE is a MEME.

WE will ANSWER the Q.

GET READY!

Notable: DJT, SoS Cautions citizens traveling to Nigeria and other ___hole countries (TheBreakingTimes)

Donald Trump warns citizens about travelling to Nigeria, 34 other countries ==

The US Department of State has cautioned its citizens to “reconsider travel to Nigeria because violent crime, such as armed robbery, assault, carjacking, terrorism, civil unrest, kidnapping, rape and piracy, is common throughout the country.”

In a travel advisory published on its website, which contains information on the safety and security of US travellers, Nigeria was listed among 35 countries with a ‘K’ indicator, that indicates where its citizens could be at risk of getting kidnapped or taken hostage.

“The new ‘K’ indicator is part of our ongoing commitment to provide clear and comprehensive travel safety information to U.S. citizens so they can make informed travel decisions.

“The Travel Advisories for 35 countries have been updated to include a “K” indicator for the risk of kidnapping and/or hostage taking: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Russian Federation, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine (in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine), Venezuela, and Yemen,” the department said.

While Nigeria was placed on level 3, the US Department of State issued a level 4 travel alert for Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.

“The security situation in northeast Nigeria is fluid and unpredictable, particularly in Borno and Yobe States and northern Adamawa State.

“Terrorist groups based in the Northeast target churches, schools, mosques, government installations, educational institutions, and entertainment venues. Approximately two million of Nigerians have been displaced as a result of the violence in northeast Nigeria,” the department said.

The 35 countries were placed in four levels of travel with respect to their safety and security risk: Exercise normal precautions, Exercise increased caution, Reconsider travel and Do not travel.

https://www.thebreakingtimes.com/donald-trump-warns-citizens-about-travelling-to-nigeria-34-other-countries/ …

Notable: >>6191289 Photos of interior of Notre Dame (@BreakingNAlerts)

https://twitter.com/BreakingNAlerts/status/1117921140163403777

Photo shows that the interior of Notre Dame has been preserved after a devastating fire.

Notable: House D's issue subpoena to Deutsche Bank for docs re: Trump finances (@NewsBreaking)

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1117919458369007616

Notable: >>6191450 Jihadi Jailed Over Attempted Car Bombing Outside Notre Dame on Friday (GatewayPundit)

BREAKING: ON FRIDAY Female Jihadi Jailed Over Attempted Car Bombing Outside Notre Dame Cathedral

On Friday Islamic terrorists Inez Madani was jailed for eight years for her attempted car bombing outside of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

Madani was wounded with a knife in the belly of a police officer during the arrest in 2016.

On Friday she was jailed for eight years in the attempted attack.

The Journal.ie reported:

ONE OF THREE women allegedly involved in a foiled plot in 2016 to blow up a car packed with gas canisters near the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris was today sentenced to eight years in prison by a French court for earlier offences.

Ines Madani, 22, was sentenced following a three-day trial during which she was accused of encouraging would-be jihadists to go to Syria and participate in attacks against France between March 2015 and June 2016.

She used Telegram – an encrypted messaging app widely used by jihadists to communicate.

Judge Isabelle Prevost-Desprez said that Madani was “recruited” by Oumar Diaw, also known as Abou Barrou, an influential jihadist of the Islamic State group.

She used different pseudonyms on social networks, pretending for example to be Abu Souleymane, a jihadist returned from Raqa to carry out attacks in France.

“You had some autonomy in the management of your personality…. Your determination marks your dangerousness,” Prevost-Desprez said.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/breaking-on-friday-female-jihadi-jailed-over-attempted-car-bombing-outside-notre-dame-cathedral/

Notable: Trump, Pompeo brush aside Kim's deadline for nuclear talks flexibility (Reuters)

Trump, Pompeo brush aside Kim's deadline for nuclear talks flexibility

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday brushed aside North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s demand for Washington to show more flexibility in nuclear talks by year-end, with Pompeo saying Kim should keep his promise to give up his nuclear weapons before then.

Asked about Kim’s statement last week that he was only interested in meeting Trump again if the United States came with the right attitude, Pompeo told reporters that the president was “determined to move forward diplomatically.”

But Pompeo said Kim had made a commitment to denuclearize and “we collectively need to see that outcome move forward.”

“Our teams are working with the North Koreans … to chart a path forward so that we can get there. He said he wanted it done by the end of the year. I’d love to see that done sooner.”

Trump and Kim have met twice, in Hanoi in February and Singapore in June, seeming to build personal goodwill but failing to agree on a deal to lift sanctions in exchange for North Korea abandoning its nuclear and missile programs.

The Hanoi talks collapsed after Trump proposed a “big deal” in which sanctions would be lifted if North Korea handed over all its nuclear weapons to the United States. He rejected partial denuclearization steps offered by Kim.

Breaking his silence on the summit in a speech to North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly on Friday, Kim said it was “essential for the U.S. to quit its current calculation method and approach us with a new one.”

He said the outcome in Hanoi led him to question the strategy he embraced last year of international engagement and talks with the United States.

Kim said his personal relationship with Trump was still good, but that he had no interest in a third summit if it were a repeat of Hanoi.

He said North Korea would “wait for a bold decision from the U.S. with patience till the end of this year,” raising the potential for the unresolved North Korea nuclear issue to become a liability for Trump during his 2020 re-election bid.

TRUMP: NORTH KOREA ISSUE ‘MOVING ALONG’

In a speech on Monday in Burnsville, Minnesota, Trump nevertheless maintained an upbeat tone on North Korea, saying the issue was “moving along” with Pyongyang sticking to a freeze in nuclear and missile testing in place since 2017.

He again stressed his “very good relationship” with Kim “who just said the other day he looks forward to more talks.”

“Talk is OK. Talk is OK,” Trump said adding that he did not want the process to move fast. “It doesn’t have to move fast. Right now it’s moving along just perfectly. And we have a good relationship, the sanctions are on … there’s a lot of constructive things going on.”

On Saturday, Trump said a third summit with Kim “would be good in that we fully understand where we each stand.”

Despite Trump’s and Pompeo’s remarks, U.S. officials have acknowledged that the two sides have failed to agree on a definition of denuclearization. And in a year of talks, Pyongyang has given no public indication of willingness to abandon its weapons program unilaterally as Washington has demanded.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa/trump-pompeo-brush-aside-kims-deadline-for-nuclear-talks-flexibility-idUSKCN1RR2C3

Notable: Submarine rescue ship, Air Force U-2 join search for missing Japanese pilot (USNI News)

https://news.usni.org/2019/04/15/submarine-rescue-ship-air-force-u-2-join-search-for-missing-japanese-pilot-f-35a

A U.S. surveillance plane and a recently commissioned Japanese submarine rescue ship are now scanning the ocean floor in search of a downed F-35A.

Over the weekend, Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force identified the pilot of the F-35A as Maj. Akinori Hosomi. His F-35A crashed into the Pacific Ocean Tuesday evening, about 85 miles east of Misawa Air Base, the fighter’s home field located in the northeastern part of Honshu, Japan’s main island, according to U.S. 7th Fleet.

Also over the weekend, Japan dispatched one of its newest ships, JS Chiyoda (ASR-404), the flagship of Japan’s submarine rescue fleet, Japan’s Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya, said during a media briefing Friday according to The Japan Times. Along with sensors, Chiyoda carries two deep-sea search vessels outfitted with cameras. The F-35 is thought to have crashed in a part of the Pacific that is about 5,000 feet deep.

A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane joined the U.S. military and Japan self-defense forces search for the F-35A, Stars and Stripes reported.

The U.S. Navy sent USS Stethem (DDG-63) and P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft assigned to Patrol Squadron (VP) 8 and Patrol Squadron (VP) 5 to assist with the search efforts.

U.S. and Japanese forces are attempting to recover as much of the downed aircraft as possible. The concern is if other nations, such as Russia and China, find part of the downed aircraft, their scientists could figure out ways to neutralize the effectiveness of some the F-35’s stealth, radar and sensors.

Notable: >>6191531 POTUS_Schedule RT: New Details on Assange via ABC White House correspondent

POTUS SCHEDULE

https://twitter.com/tarapalmeri/status/1117911764031512576?s=19

Notable: 34 arrests in "bone breaking" insurance scam in Italy (BBC)

Italian police arrest 34 people in 'bone-breaking' scam

Italian police have arrested 34 people allegedly involved in a "bone-breaking" medical insurance scam in Palermo, Sicily.

The perpetrators allegedly broke people's limbs and staged road accidents in exchange for part of their insurance payout.

The scam was first uncovered when one individual died after being beaten, police say.

Eleven people were arrested over similar activity last August.

Italy country profile

Police said the organised criminal enterprise had focused on drug addicts, alcoholics, the mentally ill, and others "on the margins of society" in financial need.

More than 50 people were allegedly taken to "rooms of horror" in apartments or warehouses.

The victims were anaesthetised with drugs and had their limbs held on blocks of stone or cement, which were hit with bags of weights or large rocks.

Woman's hand sawn off 'in insurance fraud'

The tech driving down car insurance fraud

Fake car accidents were later staged in areas of the city not covered by CCTV cameras, and gang members would take the victims to hospital, posing as relatives.

In another case, the group staged a fake accident on a ferry from Palermo to Genoa, with the victim alleging he had fallen down the ship's stairs, Italian media say.

The victims were allegedly paid hundreds of euros under the scheme, despite their insurance claims being worth thousands.

Among those arrested are doctors and physiotherapists who allegedly filed false medical reports, and a lawyer who filed the insurance claims.

Local media report that the scheme brought in more than €2m (£1.7m; $2.26) a year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47938738

Notable: 2016 Failed ISIS attack on Notre Dame (Guardian)

==Cell of French women guided by Isis behind failed Notre Dame attack | World news

Angelique Chrisafis==

A cell of radicalised French women guided by Islamic State commanders in Syria was behind a failed terrorist attack near Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral last weekend and planned another violent attack this week before they were intercepted by police, the Paris prosecutor has said.

The women, aged 19, 23 and 39, were arrested in Boussy-Saint-Antoine, a small town 19 miles (30km) south-east of Paris, on Thursday night after they were linked to the discovery of a car packed with gas cylinders parked near the cathedral last weekend. Officials said the women had been planning an imminent violent attack on the busy Gare de Lyon station in Paris and were stopped after a police and intelligence operation described as a “race against time”.

The Paris prosecutor, François Molins, said one of the women arrested, who he referred to as Sarah H, aged 23, had been engaged at different times to two French extremists who themselves had carried out deadly attacks this year.

She had been engaged to Larossi Abballa, who in June murdered a police commander and his police officer partner at their home in Magnanville outside Paris in the presence of their three-year-old son. He filmed the aftermath on Facebook Live before dying in a police raid. She was also betrothed to Adel Kermiche, who slit the throat of an elderly French priest during morning mass in Normandy in July. Her current fiancé was arrested on Thursday, Molins said.

The prosecutor said the cell of women terrorists showed that Islamic State “intends to make women into fighters”. He said that if women had previously been “confined to family and domestic tasks” by the militant group, that vision was now strongly out of date. “Their aim was to commit an attack,” he said of the women.

The group’s first attempted attack involved parking a Peugeot 607 car packed with gas cylinders near the cathedral in the heart of Paris and trying to blow it up. The car was also found to have contained diesel canisters and a barely-smoked cigarette had been thrown into the car near a canister with traces of hydrocarbons. Molins said the perpetrators had clearly tried to blow the car up and if they had succeeded it would have led to the explosion of the whole vehicle.

The car had no plates and was left with indicators flashing in a narrow alley. From the insurance sticker on the car, police traced it back to a father of five daughters originally from the Seine-Saint-Denis area north of Paris.

One of the daughters, aged 19, who was named by news agencies as Ines Madani, was known to intelligence agencies and had been on a radicalisation watchlist for her wish to leave to join jihadis in Syria. At the time the car was found, she had been missing from home for several days.

Police on Thursday traced Madani and two other women to a flat in Boussy-Saint-Antoine in the Essonne area south of Paris. They arrested the three women when they left the flat. During the arrest, one of the women stabbed a police officer with a large kitchen knife, and Madani jumped on another officer attempting to stab him. The police opened fire and Madani was injured. When she was arrested, Madani had the keys to the Peugeot 607 in her handbag and a note pledging her allegiance to Isis and a reproduction of an Isis text vowing “we will attack you on your territory to attack your spirits and terrorise you”. Isis propaganda was found on her computer at her home.

A 15-year-old girl, who is the daughter of one of the three women arrested, Amel S, was separately detained on Friday morning in Clichy-sous-Bois, north of Paris. The prosecutor said the teenager could have been implicated in the planned terrorist attack.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/09/cell-of-french-women-radicalised-by-isis-behind-failed-notre-dame-attack

Notable: >>6190917 "sift.com" trustworthiness score dig

>>6190916

Oops stoke the first image and replace with this one

Notable: >>6190546 The French State, not the Church, owns the Notre Dame

>>6190546

The cathedral is owned by the French State.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris#Ownership

Notable: Haitian orphanage founder arrested in Dominican Republic (Fox)

BAKER NOTABLE

Haitian orphanage founder arrested in Dominican Republic

https://www.foxnews.com/world/haitian-orphanage-founder-arrested-in-dominican-republic

Notable: WH says Jimmy Carter sent Trump a 'beautiful' letter prompting phone call (DailyMail)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6925709/White-House-says-Jimmy-Carter-sent-Trump-beautiful-letter-prompting-phone-call.html

Notable: DJT: God bless the people of France!

DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1117910111236681728

Notable: DJT: The forgotten voters of the 2016 election are now doing great.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1117909721766174720?s=19

Notable: Saint Sulpice, church in France, also caught fire less than a month ago

ARCHIVE!

https://mobile.twitter.com/sotiridi/status/1107283310441652224

Notable: Canada joins new German-France 'alliance' that doesn't include U.S. (CTV News)

Canada joins new German-France 'alliance' that doesn't include U.S.

OTTAWA – Canada has formally joined a German-French coalition aimed at saving the international world order from destruction by various world dictators and autocrats – and U.S. President Donald Trump.

The initiative is part of ongoing government efforts to shore up international co-operation at a time of waning American leadership and Trump's outspoken disdain of institutions created after the Second World War, including the G7, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations.

Japan also joined the new alliance

withdrawal from the Paris climate change agreement, and his criticism of the UN and WTO.

"It sends the wrong message to the world if we think that because Mr. Trump is not in favour of multilateralism, it doesn't mean we – I mean countries like Canada, France, Germany and many others – are not still strong believers."

During testimony last week before the Senate foreign affairs committee, Freeland said that Canada joined the alliance overs concerns in the G7 over the growing threats posed by authoritarian regimes and their disinformation campaigns aimed and discrediting democracy and its institutions.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-joins-new-german-france-alliance-that-doesn-t-include-u-s-1.4380356

Notable: TIME columnist deleted tweet? "A Jesuit friend [told me] the fire was intentionally set"

However, TIME columnist Christopher J. Hale tweeted, “A Jesuit friend in Paris who works in Notre Dame told me cathedral staff said the fire was intentionally set.”

Hale deleted the tweet within minutes after it attracted attention.

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/notre-dame-worker-says-fire-was-deliberately-set/

Notable: Catholic Churches being desecrated across France (Newsweek)

Not a Clue…

Catholic Churches Are Being Desecrated Across France—and Officials Don’t Know Why

– France has seen a spate of attacks against Catholic churches since the start of the year, vandalism that has included arson and desecration.

Vandals have smashed statues, knocked down tabernacles, scattered or destroyed the Eucharist and torn down crosses, sparking fears of a rise in anti-Catholic sentiment in the country.

Last Sunday, the historic Church of St. Sulpice in Paris was set on fire just after midday mass on Sunday, Le Parisien reported, although no one was injured. Police are still investigating the attack, which firefighters have confidently attributed to arson.

RELATED: Everything we know about the devastating fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

Built in the 17th century, St. Sulpice houses three works by the Romantic painter Eugene de la Croix, and was used in the movie adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown.

https://www.newsweek.com/spate-attacks-catholic-churches-france-sees-altars-desecrated-christ-statue-1370800

Notable: Father Frederic at Notre Dame: majority of artwork/treasures/artefacts were saved

https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1117906520027480064

Father Frederic, a priest at Norte Dame has revealed that the majority of artworks and treasures including the crown of thorns, shirt of St.Louis and holy sacraments have been saved

Notable: Macron: We will rebuild Notre Dame in "a way consistent with our modern diverse nation."

>>6190182

FUCKER IS BUILDING A MOSQUE

Notable: Propagandists receiving props.

https://twitter.com/ap/status/1117870990048972800

Notable: Muslims attack anti-radical Islam protest in Denmark.

NOTABLES.

Copenhagen in flames after right-wing protesters throw the Quran book on the ground.

Violent riots erupted in the Danish capital on Sunday when the right-wing politician and Islam critic Rasmus Paludan, leader of the party Stram Kurs (Strict Course), held a demonstration in the district of Nørrebro, Denmark’s Radio reports.

An angry crowd of counter-protesters showed up and attacked Paludan’s demonstration, and when the police intervened, they were attacked as well.

“We had been expecting counter-protests, but not that it would lead to the type of unrest that we have seen today”, said Copenhagen police chief Jørgen Bergen Skov at a press conference in the evening, while the riots were still ongoing.

People threw, among other things, paving stones, bicycles and plastic chairs against the police, and footage from Nørrebro shows how cars and other property are ablaze.

The Police used tear gas and drew weapons, however, without firing any shots. On Monday morning, the police announced that 15 people had been arrested during Sunday’s riots, which also spread to other districts in Copenhagen.

Kvällsposten states that bystanders were provoked when Rasmus Paludan and a party colleague threw a Quran back and forth and demonstratively dropped it several times.

“We were playing with the Quran for about two minutes before two people who looked like Somalis attacked me. One of them took the Quran”, Paludan told Ekstrabladet.

It is not the first time that Rasmus Paludan demonstrates in an area where many Muslims live, and he has previously caused quite a storm by burning the Quran.

Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen tweeted that he dissociates himself from Paladins “pointless provocations”, but urged people to meet him with arguments rather than violence.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/04/copenhagen-in-flames-after-right-wing-protesters-provocatively-throw-the-quran-on-the-ground/

Notable: Q clock update. Re-read crumbs.

Q CLOCK UPDATE - RE-READ CRUMBS

Today's Q Clock :14

Answer Q re: SR.

SR June JA.

http:// www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/20/democratic-party-files-federal-lawsuit-alleging-conspiracy-by-trump-campaign-russia-wikileaks-to-disrupt-2016-presidential-election.html

Coincidence?

TRUMP card coming.

Tick TOCK (LLC).

Open source.

Today's :25/:55 Q Clock Mirror :36

Simple 'non-direct' statements made.

"Be careful who you follow."

"Some are profiting off this movement."

Those guilty immediately reacted (predictably).

Attacks will only get worse.

News beginning to leak.

Not new to Anons.

Today's 180-Degree Q Clock Mirror :44

We have the algorithm.

Thank you @ Snowden.

UK:US

US:UK

Be careful who you follow.

Those who are loudest…

Suicide weekend?

THIS IS ABOUT SAVING AMERICA. WRWY N1LB FG&C WWG1WGA!

Nope, nothing about the Notre Dame Cathedral on the clocks. This was definitely a Deep State move that was not predicted, yet was surely surveilled. Get 'em, Q!

Notable: POTUS emphasizes "renovation."

POTUS emphasizes "renovation"

Notable: Bill Weld (who?) says he's running for President as a Republican.

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1117894680425816064

Notable: >>6189726 Notre Dame fire reportedly stabilized.

https://twitter.com/Breakingservice/status/1117894312547639297

Notable: Notre Dame's stained glass rose windows have been destroyed.

https://twitter.com/PorterMedium/status/1117893462051803136

Notable: Police drone shows extent of damage at Notre Dame Cathedral.

https://twitter.com/BreakingNAlerts/status/1117892757391994881

Police drone shows extent of damage at Notre Dame Cathedral

Notable: Shooting in BC.

https://twitter.com/News_Executive/status/1117892526344589312

Notable: Fires started by construction crews?

How many fires have been started by "construction" crews lately?

https://pembinavalleyonline.com/local/fire-chief-commends-quick-action-of-fire-fighters-despite-construction-site-challenges

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winkler-school-fire-1.5083531

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/byward-market-fire-vittoria-trattoria-accidental-1.5098436

https://www.kfyrtv.com/content/news/Crews-battling-fire-near-Minot-hospital-construction-site-507547351.html

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/connecticut/articles/2019-03-24/authorities-probing-2nd-fire-at-state-park-construction-site

Notable: YouTube mistakenly tags Notre Dame fire video as '9/11 conspiracy'.

YouTube Mistakenly Tags Notre Dame Fire Video As '9/11 Conspiracy'

Demonstrating just how poorly designed its algorithms intended to filter out 'conspiratorial' content can be, particularly when reacting in real time to a breaking news event, YouTube has apologized after its recently launched conspiracy-filtering feature accidentally tagged a livestream of the devastating fire at Notre Dame cathedral as a '9/11 conspiracy' video.

As Bloomberg pointed out, shortly after the fire broke out, several news organizations launched live streams of the horrific blaze on YouTube.

Below a stream from France24 and several other channels, a box of text appeared bearing a snippet from Encyclopedia Britannica about the 9/11 attacks, indicating that the footage had been mistakenly labeled a 9/11 conspiracy video.

YouTube introduced the text boxes last year, but in recent months has taken steps to suppress content it deems 'conspiratorial', filtering them out of search results for related topics to prevent the content from corrupting the minds of unsuspecting users.

A YouTube spokesman apologized for the error and said these labels are assigned by algorithms that occasionally make mistakes.

"We are deeply saddened by the ongoing fire at the Notre-Dame cathedral," said a YouTube spokesman. "These panels are triggered algorithmically and our systems sometimes make the wrong call. We are disabling these panels for live streams related to the fire."

The mistake was widely mocked on Twitter.

And as one reporter astutely reported, YouTube's new tool meant to filter out false information is doing the exact opposite.

But sure - let's continue to allow tech firms to decide what information is fit for public consumption. Because clearly they're doing such a great job.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-15/youtube-mistakenly-tags-notre-dame-fire-video-911-conspiracy

Notable: JW comments on possible Mueller report redaction strategy.

https://twitter.com/JudicialWatch/status/1117888072044171265

Notable: Inside Notre Dame. (photo)

inside notre dame

Notable: Marketfag update.

Greenback Gains But Banks, Bitcoin, Bullion, & Bond Yields Slide

(Goldman was stuck on -6.66 for a while too)

Cap 2 is GS daily-almost 2x daily average volume

As Stocks rise, Volumes slide.

(hey!! FINALLY mention's volume's!!!)

China was ugly overnight with ChiNext down once again. (except is wasn't but who notices right?)

Europe ended the day practically unchanged after a solid open for Italy and Spain.

US markets more mixed with Small Caps and Trannies worst. S&P, Dow, and Nasdaq all levitated back towards unch in the last hour.

(See cap #2 for the ubiquitous spray job into the close)

Goldman's results disappointed, erasing all of Friday's gains and the rest of the banks slumped.

Goldman Sachs : offers fresh details on overhaul progress as revenue slides

(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc offered new tidbits about its sweeping operational overhaul when reporting first-quarter results on Monday, but investors focused on revenue declines across nearly all its main businesses, sending shares lower.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-goldman-sachs-results/goldman-offers-fresh-details-on-overhaul-progress-as-revenue-slides-idUSKCN1RR145

And judging by the yield curve, financials still have a long way to go.

Treasury yields edged lower today - in a tight range - after Friday's surge.

(see cap #3 as the spread continues to compress towards yield-curve inversion)

Having blown above 2.50% on Friday, 10Y Yields drifted very modestly lower today.

Following Friday's slump, the dollar index rebounded notably today, seemingly bid as US markets opened.

And while VIX was flashing an 11 handle - FX Vol collapsed to a 5 year low.

Cryptos suddenly lurched lower as Bloomberg reported on algos gone wild.

(nothing new here)

Commodities drifted lower for most of the last 24 hours, rebounding after US markets opened with silver ending best - unchanged.(remember when it is HATED by the system and it's pundits, YOU LOVE IT)

Gold remains below $1300.

Finally, US Macro data is at its weakest since July 2017 as Chinese macro data surges to its best since May 2018 - but we have seen this kind of sudden divergence before.

Don't forget though - its not the economy, it's central banks stupid!

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-15/greenback-gains-banks-bitcoin-bullion-bond-yields-slide

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd10y?countrycode=bx

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI?p=GS

Notable: POTUS Schedule: POTUS motorcade en route to MSP. Greeted with "Obama Spied!" sign.

https://twitter.com/45_Schedule/status/1117882629695533057

Notable: WH Tweets: 5 Booms. Booms incoming.

WHITE HOUSE

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM

5 BOOMING

Notable: Russia may fight America for its share of the oil market.

Did Russia Just Call The End Of The OPEC Deal?

OPEC and heavyweight Russia may fight America for its share of the oil market, Russia’s Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told TASS on Saturday, even if it means quitting the OPEC deal and lowered oil prices.

OPEC and Russia have tapered oil production according to the agreed upon production cut deal, but the United States continues to increase its production and is picking up market share in the process - market share formerly held by OPEC members and the other non-OPEC signatories to the deal including Russia.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-15/did-russia-just-call-end-opec-deal

Notable: Austria wants to ban online anonymity, and urges the world to follow in its footsteps

Austria Wants To Ban Online Anonymity, And Urges The World To Follow In Its Footsteps

Convinced that Mark Zuckerberg doesn't quite yet have enough user data, Austria is now considering a new law that would require large internet platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to register their users, effectively banning anonymity on social media sites. The new law would be targeted at depriving "those behind hate posts of anonymity," according to The Local.

Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said: "Unfortunately there have been an increasing number of clear violations, denigrations and humiliations online in the past under the cover of anonymity. That's why we need a framework for more responsibility online."

But isn't the anonymous denigration and humiliation of others a founding principle of the internet, and part of what makes it great?

The law, if passed, would go into effect in 2020 and would make it mandatory for users of popular social media sites to register their users. The platforms would have flexibility on how they register their users, but Austria seeks to give its authorities access to a user's identity in the event of "hate postings or on suspicion of other laws being broken".

The report didn't say what, exactly, qualified as a "hate posting".

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-13/austria-wants-ban-online-anonymity-and-urges-world-follow-its-footsteps

Notable: Saudis fly MPs under house arrest in Saudi Arabia back to Yemen to form new parliament.

Saudis Fly MPs Under House Arrest in Saudi Arabia Back to Yemen to Form New Parliament

Yemeni members of parliament who have been under house arrest in Saudi Arabia since 2015 were returned to Yemen on a private Saudi plane to take part in a new Saudi-brokered Yemeni parliament.

HADRAMOUT, YEMEN — Three months ago, MintPress News unveiled Saudi plans to hijack Yemen’s parliament. On Saturday, Saudi Arabia successfully carried out the plan when it forced members of Yemen’s House of Representatives to hold a council session in the eastern city of Sayun in Yemen’s Hadramout governorate.

Yemeni members of parliament who have been under house arrest in Saudi Arabia since 2015 were returned to Yemen on a private Saudi plane and received by Saudi officials at the Al-Rayyan airport in eastern Yemen. Local Yemeni media was barred from covering their arrival and Saudi state-run Al-Arabiya was the sole media outlet allowed to cover the event. It was held under heavy security with Saudi troops on patrol and was attended by ousted former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and ambassadors from countries backing Saudi plans in Yemen.

More than 100 lawmakers attended the parliamentary session in Sayun city. Sultan al-Borkani, a tribal Sheikh from late Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s General People’s Congress (GPC), was elected to be the new speaker of the Saudi-backed parliament, replacing the current, legitimately elected speaker, Yahya al-Ra’I, who is still presiding over the council’s sessions in Sana’a. The parliamentary session was aimed at giving the Saudi-led Coalition legal cover for its occupation of the country.

Saudis still cannot form quorum for business

Despite sizable Saudi efforts, less than half of the parliament’s MPs were not present at the Sayun session, leaving the session short of the number of MPs needed to achieve quorum. The Assembly of Representatives has a total of 301 members.

The parliamentary session was originally slated to be held in Aden but was moved to Sayun after a group of separatists allied with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in southern Yemen prevented parliament from convening in the city. According to politicians in southern Yemen, the Saudi move to form a new parallel parliament is a threat to local efforts in southern Yemen to form an independent state.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/saudis-fly-mps-under-house-arrest-in-saudi-arabia-back-to-yemen-to-form-new-parliament/257408/

Notable: VIP Anon in MN today.

VIP Anon in MN today

(his hometown)

https://twitter.com/Q_ANONBaby/status/1117875062315470848

Notable: Scandal and controversy loom over Buttigieg's Presidential run.

Pete Buttigieg (Butt-Plug)

Selling a Police Chief position for $10,000 to a campaign of Pete's choice….

Officers discussing "what if it comes out that the Mayor was caught in Public Parks in "nefarious positions" repeatedly?"

Racism by his Top Homicide Commander on tape…. Much More!

https://www.wndu.com/content/news/Hearing-Monday-in-South-Bend-Police-tapes-case-508580051.html?fbclid=IwAR3Y9kFTOwt1O8_bFwk5pyfbYBbVsYXpSDnLsYQVtVesMwzcT0zCi0I0QF0

“In 2011, Karen DePaepe, a 25-year veteran of the South Bend Police Department in charge of the dispatch and communications center, informed Boykins that the desk phone line for Detective Bryan Young was being taped.

A previous police chief had authorized taping the phone line because the detective at the time didn’t want to miss any possible tips. Boykins allowed the taping, now on Young’s phone line, to continue but did not inform the detective that his calls were being recorded.

About a year later, shortly after Buttigieg had been elected to his first term in office at the age of 29, DePaepe discovered recordings on the line that she said revealed racist remarks and a potential criminal conspiracy between officers.

DePaepe took the allegations to Boykins, who confronted the officers.

The officers, upset over the secret recordings, went to the FBI and Department of Justice to ask for an investigation. They contended the recordings were illegal, and their complaints prompted U.S. Attorney David Capp to open an investigation.

Buttigieg steps in

Buttigieg only learned of the investigation into the recordings in early 2012 when the FBI alerted him to the probe.

Buttigieg’s allies say he was frustrated that Boykins did not tell him about the existence of the investigation. The mayor was alarmed by allegations the officers had been improperly recorded.

Though he had initially asked Boykins to remain on as police chief after his mayoral win, Buttigieg, upon learning of the investigation, asked him to resign.

Boykins complied, but a day later, after consulting with legal counsel and hearing from supporters in the community, he reversed course and asked to be reinstated.

In an interview with The Hill, Boykins’s attorney, Tom Dixon, accused the mayor’s office of misleading his client and trying to scare him into leaving. In a court filing, Boykins said he had stepped down under “the false pretense that the Mayor was being directed into this course of action by the U.S. Attorney’s office.”

Buttigieg relented to a degree, removing Boykins as police chief but keeping him on the force with a demotion to captain.

The mayor also fired DePaepe, believing she had intentionally eavesdropped on the officers to dig up dirt on them. DePaepe disputed that characterization, saying in a court filing that she had “inadvertently stumbled upon conversations” between officers.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/438669-secret-tapes-linger-over-buttigiegs-meteoric-rise

Notable: International Criminal Court: US/NATO imperial tool.

International Criminal Court: US/NATO Imperial Tool

Time and again, the ICC breaches its mandate, calling for “end(ing) impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern.”

The court consistently ignores US/NATO imperial war crimes, prosecuting their victims instead.

Established by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on July 1, 2002, it’s mandated to prosecute individuals for genocide and aggression, as well as crimes or war and against humanity – the highest of high crimes.

Never in the court’s near-17 year history did it fulfill its mandate, a disturbing record.

Since established in 1945, the performance of the UN is worse over a far longer duration. Established “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our life time has brought untold sorrow to mankind,” its near-75-year history reflects consistent failures.

Its leadership did nothing to deter war, human rights abuses, or other high crimes of powerful member states, notably the US, other Western ones and Israel – responsible for countless high crimes of war and against humanity, committed with impunity.

In 2016, ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said she’d launch an investigation into Afghanistan war crimes after US November elections.

Its high crimes of war in Afghanistan and other war theaters are well documented – notably damning information in the Afghan War Diary and Iraq War Logs revealed by Chelsea Manning, published by WikiLeaks.

There’s enough credible information in them to indict top officials of three US regimes, most current and past congressional members for funding US wars, the entire Pentagon high command, and countless subordinates below them.

Last week, the Trump regime annulled Bensouda’s US visa (except to visit UN headquarters in New York) after Pompeo vowed to shield Americans from what he called “unjust prosecutions,” adding:

“If you’re responsible for the proposed ICC investigation of US personnel in connection with the situation in Afghanistan, you should not assume that you still have, or will get, a visa or that you will be permitted to enter the United States.”

“We are prepared to take additional steps, including economic sanctions, if the ICC does not change course.”

Washington rules call for prosecuting its victims, not US government and military officials responsible for the highest of high crimes.

The 2002 American Service Members’ Protection Act (ASPA, aka The Hague Invasion Act) “protect(s) United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States government against criminal prosecution by an international court to which the United States is not party.”

It authorizes the president to use “all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any US or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court.”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/international-criminal-court-usnato-imperial-tool/5674437

Notable: Nighthawk stealth bombers used for operations?

LONG LIVE FRANCE!

Updated Graphic: Night [#] Crumbs Were A Signature About F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Bombers

*This is just a theory*

There have been recent reports about F-117 sightings and flights, as if they're active again, EVEN THOUGH they were decommissioned years ago in 2007 and 2008.

These were the planes being developed in Area 51 during the 70s and 80s, so they have ALWAYS had secrecy associated with them.

There is new reports about 4 of the f-117 Nighthawks being used once in Syria in 2017.

But there have been reports of "unidentified or unknown aircrafts" CONSTANTLY throughout the campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, I included just a few. There's so many more.

It's highly plausible many more missions have been done using them.

Then I saw in the articles the use of "Night #" to describe the callsign.

I thought of Q's crumbs on Night [#] from April, a few days before the Airstrikes on Syria because of the chemical weapon FALSE FLAGS.

The last Night [#] crumb was Night [5] on 4/12/18, and the strikes happened early in the morning on 4/14/18.

This is theoretical, but Q posted Night [2], Night [3], Night [4], and Night [5], implying 4 Night [#]s

Night [#] → Night # → NightHawk # → F-117 → 4 F-117s

On the 14th ALSO, there was a giant explosion at an Iranian base in Syria from an "unidentified" aircraft or aircrafts that was blamed on Israel.

It seriously crippled Iranian forces in that area, of Northern Syria.

Q asked "What if Iran created a classified ‘satellite’ Nuclear facility in Northern Syria?", and also asked "Why did we strike Syria? Why did we really strike Syria?".

I don't think we hit targets AT the facility, but we hit targets at this base to PREVENT anything from continuing there, and Q uses "prevent" a lot in the crumbs I put in the graphic, even saying "Prevent at all costs."

The theory is that Q was telling us we were striking COVERTLY, while the international spectacle of the OVERT airstrikes were happening using supposedly decommissioned F-117 Nighthawks.

This also means we could be hitting cabal targets covertly ALL THE TIME, and likely are.

SAUCE:

Left:

New: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27024/f-117-sported-mysterious-dark-knights-tail-flash-during-recent-mojave-desert-flights

https://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-f-117-nighthawk-stealth-aircraft-flying-in-nevada-area-51-2019-2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-39_Small_Diameter_Bomb

https://defence-blog.com/news/scramble-f-117-stealth-fighters-were-secretly-deployed-to-the-middle-east.html

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Top Middle:

https://thenewsrep.com/114852/reports-allege-us-deployed-4-retired-f-117-nighthawks-to-syria-and-iraq-in-2017/

https://sputniknews.com/military/201903031072915688-f-117-middle-east-syria-iraq/

https://theaviationist.com/2019/02/27/check-out-this-incredible-footage-of-an-f-117-flying-low-over-death-valley-today/

https://theaviationist.com/2019/03/02/four-f-117s-conducted-covert-air-strikes-in-syria-in-2017-reputable-dutch-scramble-magazine-says/

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Right:

https://theaviationist.com/2018/08/06/lets-talk-about-the-sightings-of-f-117-stealth-jets-flying-over-nevada-few-days-ago/

https://www.facebook.com/Scramblemagazine/posts/2670767592949758

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26728/lets-talk-about-the-rumor-that-f-117s-have-flown-missions-in-the-middle-east-recently

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Bottom Middle:

https://www.rt.com/news/168176-iraq-isis-planes-bomb/

https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/unidentified-plane-bombs-saraya-al-jihad-jurf-al-nasr-babil/

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-government-urges-un-stop-us-coalition-crimes-syria/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/04/14/us-airstrikes-syria-trump-putin-what-we-know/517060002/

https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Syrian-media-Explosions-at-largest-Iranian-base-in-Syria-549824

https://www.newsweek.com/who-bombing-syria-new-strikes-hit-military-positions-world-powers-clash-905377

https://www.debka.com/usaf-takes-control-of-syrian-skies-unidentified-air-strike-on-iranian-target/

Notable: A brief summary of who is responding to the tragic Notre Dame fire with 'smiley faces' on Facebook.

A brief summary of who is responding to the tragic Notre Dame fire with 'smiley faces' on Facebook. Appalling.

https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1117854455473397763

Notable: President @realDonaldTrump remarks on Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

President @realDonaldTrump remarks on Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris…

twitter.com/Scavino45/status/1117864678711943168

Notable: Judge orders lockup of Chinese woman arrested at Mar-a-Lago.

‘Up to something nefarious.’ Judge orders lockup of Chinese woman arrested at Mar-a-Lago

A federal judge Monday ordered the detention of Yujing Zhang, the Chinese woman arrested trying to enter President Donald Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago club. “It does appear to the court that Ms. Zhang was up to something nefarious,” Magistrate Judge William Matthewman said at the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach, 'adding that he considered Zhang, 33, a flight risk and believed she would return to China if released before trial. Matthewman said the weight of the evidence against Zhang — who pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of making false statements to federal officers and entering restricted property — is “quite strong.”' Prosecutors had asked to keep her locked up.

Although no allegations of espionage have been made against Zhang, federal prosecutor Rolando Garcia said more charges are still possible. The FBI is treating her case as a national-security matter, sources have told the Miami Herald. Her arrest raised questions about security at Mar-a-Lago — and whether foreign adversaries could seek to penetrate the president’s Palm Beach club. Zhang was stopped at Mar-a-Lago March 30. She said she was there to attend an event and was carrying what the U.S. Secret Service described as a thumb-drive containing “malicious malware,” as well as several other electronic devices.

But during Monday’s hearing, prosecutors acknowledged the malware could have been a “false positive.” Garcia said the new findings were based on an FBI analysis of the thumb-drive that did not produce the same results as an earlier Secret Service analysis. During the earlier test, the thumb-drive was inserted into a computer and automatically started downloading files, something a Secret Service agent described as unusual in court testimony last week. The thumb-drive did not start downloading files during the subsequent FBI analysis, Garcia said. Tests are ongoing.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article229267494.html

Notable: A list of church attacks in France.

>>6188268

The attacks have been happening all year.

It's the crowd pleaser today and it's Holy Week.

sauce:

France…burning of catholic churches

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2019/03/shock-10-catholic-churches-attacked-in-france-in-one-week/

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/03/france-catholic-churches-vandalized-set-on-fire-smeared-with-excrement

https://www.rt.com/news/454472-arson-vandal-french-catholic-church/

https://www.newsweek.com/spate-attacks-catholic-churches-france-sees-altars-desecrated-christ-statue-1370800

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1102958/christian-persecution-france-catholic-church-christianity-religion-edouard-phillipe-isis

Notable: Chinese woman arrested at Trump’s Florida resort pleads not guilty.

Chinese Woman Arrested at Trump’s Florida Resort Pleads Not Guilty

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—A Chinese woman charged with bluffing her way into President Donald Trump’s Florida resort last month, raising concerns about security at one of the president’s weekend getaways, entered a not guilty plea on April 15 in federal court.

Yujing Zhang was formally indicted on Friday on charges of making false statements to a federal officer and entering or remaining in a restricted area. The counts carry a sentence of up to five years in prison.

During her arraignment and detention hearing in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday, a federal prosecutor said Zhang could face more charges.

She has not been indicted on any espionage charges. The FBI is examining whether Zhang has any links to intelligence agencies in China or political influence operations, two U.S. government sources have told Reuters.

Zhang, who is either 32 or 33 years old, according to court documents, was arrested on March 30 after giving conflicting reasons for being at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach during one of Trump’s weekend visits, an incident that renewed concerns about security at the club.

Trump was not on the premises at the time.

She was briefly allowed onto the property after staff mistakenly thought she might be the daughter of a club member. She aroused suspicions by variously telling Secret Service agents and Mar-a-Lago reception staff that she wanted to use the pool and that she was there for an event that did not appear on the day’s schedule, according to prosecutors.

Zhang’s lawyer, Robert Adler, has described the incident as a “misunderstanding” and said, “I don’t understand how this could be a trespass charge.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-woman-arrested-at-trumps-florida-resort-pleads-not-guilty_2880586.html

Notable: >>6188135 Secret report reveals Saudi incompetence and widespread use of U.S. weapons in Yemen

Secret Report Reveals Saudi Incompetence and Widespread Use of U.S. Weapons in Yemen

Since the brutal murder of Saudi dissident and Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi last October, Congress has increasingly pressured the Trump administration to stop backing the Saudi Arabia-led coalition fighting in Yemen and halt U.S. arms sales to Riyadh. In response, President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that if the U.S. does not sell weapons to the Saudis, they will turn to U.S. adversaries to supply their arsenals.

“I don’t like the concept of stopping an investment of $110 billion into the United States,” Trump told reporters in October, referring to a collection of intent letters signed with the Saudis in the early months of his presidency. “You know what they are going to do? They’re going to take that money and spend it in Russia or China or someplace else.”

But a highly classified document produced by the French Directorate of Military Intelligence shows that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are overwhelmingly dependent on Western-produced weapon systems to wage their devastating war in Yemen. Many of the systems listed are only compatible with munitions, spare parts, and communications systems produced in NATO countries, meaning that the Saudis and UAE would have to replace large portions of their arsenals to continue with Russian or Chinese weapons.

“You can’t just swap out the missiles that are used in U.S. planes for suddenly using Chinese and Russian missiles,” said Rachel Stohl, managing director of the Conventional Defense Program at the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C. “It takes decades to build your air force. It’s not something you do in one fell swoop.”

https://theintercept.com/2019/04/15/saudi-weapons-yemen-us-france/

1/2

Notable: Muslim girl “in search of love” plotted to blow up car packed with gas canisters near Notre Dame cathedral.

France: Muslim girl “in search of love” plotted to blow up car packed with gas canisters near Notre Dame cathedral

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/04/france-muslim-girl-in-search-of-love-plotted-to-blow-up-car-packed-with-gas-canisters-near-notre-dame-cathedral

Notable: Paris police launch criminal investigation into Notre Dame fire.

https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1117864218013904896

Notable: JW Sues State Department over John Kerry’s ‘shadow diplomacy’ to prevent U.S. withdrawal from Iran Nuclear Deal.

Judicial Watch Sues State Department over John Kerry’s ‘Shadow Diplomacy’ to Prevent U.S. Withdrawal from Iran Nuclear Deal

Seeks emails, texts, instant chats between Kerry and State Department officials and/or Kerry meetings with Iranian officials

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State for records of communications between former Secretary of State John Kerry and State Department officials regarding “the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (also known as JCPOA or ‘Iran nuclear deal’) and/or meetings between Kerry and Iranian officials to discuss the JCPOA.” (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:19-cv-00777)).

On May 8, 2018, President Trump announced the United States withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, which had been negotiated by Kerry in 2015 on behalf of the Obama State Department. In the months preceding the U.S. withdrawal, Kerry reportedly had been on a “stealthy yet aggressive mission” of shadow diplomacy in an attempt to preserve the Iran nuclear deal. Kerry reportedly held meetings and spoke with major players, foreign and domestic, involved in the Iran nuclear agreement who opposed the U.S. withdrawal.

The Judicial Watch lawsuit was filed after the State Department failed to respond to a May 7, 2018, FOIA request seeking:

All records of communications, including but not limited to emails (whether on .gov or non-.gov email accounts), text message or instant chat, between former Secretary of State John Kerry and official of the State Department regarding the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (also known as the JCPOA or “Iran nuclear deal”) and/or meetings between Kerry and Iranian officials to discuss the JCPOA.

During his personal campaign to salvage the Iran nuclear deal, Kerry is said to have met with Iran Foreign Minister Javad Zarif at the United Nations in New York in late April 2018, their second meeting in two months, to discuss ways of preventing the deal limiting Iran’s nuclear weapons program from falling apart. Current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo termed Kerry’s meeting with “the world’s largest state-sponsor of terror” “unseemly and unprecedented” and “beyond inappropriate.”

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-state-department-over-john-kerrys-shadow-diplomacy-to-prevent-u-s-withdrawal-from-iran-nuclear-deal/

Notable: 10,000 Illegal aliens from terrorist nations roam free in US.

"Sleeper Cells:" 10,000 Illegal Aliens From Terrorist Nations Roam Free In US

Approximately 10,000 illegal immigrants from countries designated as state sponsors of terrorism are living within the borders of the United States, according to the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), first reported by Breitbart. IRLI revealed last week that it had obtained documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that revealed that the 10,000 illegals have not yet been deported despite having been ordered to leave the country. The FOIA showed the illegals were from Iran, Syria, Sudan, and North Korea.

IRLI said Iran "led the pack with over 6,000 or 61% of their citizens with removal orders followed by Syria with 20%, Sudan with 18%, and North Korea with less than a percent." Congress has recently held hearings where U.S. intelligence officials have suggested that Iranian sleeper cells inside the U.S. are awaiting orders to strike. IRLI Executive Director Dale Wilcox chatted with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight last week, warned that the 10,000 illegals from terrorist countries are a "very dangerous situation."

"We have 10,000 aliens … some of them are criminals and that’s why they’ve been ordered removed. You could have some that might have come into the country legally at some point. However, they’ve committed crimes and they’ve been ordered removed. Then of course you have your garden variety of illegal aliens who have jumped the border or overstayed a legitimate visa. And they’ve been told to go home and yet they’re continuing to hide out in this country which only stresses the danger of sanctuary jurisdictions. California has the largest population of Iranians outside of Iran. California is a sanctuary state. California is not cooperating with immigration authorities, so their sanctuary law is preventing ICE from removing these individuals. Of that number 10,000 … 6,000 of these individuals are Iranian. We’ve had hearings here recently in Congress where U.S. intelligence officials have stated there are Iranian sleeper cells inside the United States, ready and waiting for the order. People have to understand how dangerous this is in these sanctuary cities because the first attack on the World Trade Center … the New York subway bombing conspiracy, and 9/11, all of these plots were perpetrated by immigration violators. This is a very dangerous situation."

Despite the dozens of sanctuary cities protecting illegal aliens from deportation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were able to deport about 44 illegal aliens in the last two fiscal years who were known or suspected terrorists.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-15/sleeper-cells-10000-illegal-aliens-terrorist-nations-roam-free-us

Notable: >>6187777 A French official "speculates" Islamic terrorism on FOX News.

A French Official "Speculates" Islamic Terrorism on FOX News - Shep Smith

PREDICTION

Expect MSM apologist to pounce once it is revealed Islam is responsible for Notre Dame Destruction.

– An average of three church attacks per day in multicultural France

Over the past three years French churches have become the target of vandals and criminals with an average of almost three churches targeted for vandalism per day.

A report from the Central Criminal Intelligence Service of the gendarmerie noted that from 2016 to 2018 there had been thousands of cases of church vandalism, peaking in 2017 with 1,045 cases, Le Figaro reports.

According to the French Interior Ministry, when cemeteries and other sites are taken into consideration, the number of acts of vandalism rose to 1,063 in 2018.

Earlier this year, in one week alone, in a detestable case of anti-Christian vandalism, France saw twelve churches vandalised, including attackers attempting to set fire to the church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris.

In Nimes, an even more heinous attack occurred, with vandals smearing feces on the wall of the church of Notre-Dame des Enfants and stealing objects from the altar.

In March, the over 800-year-old Basilica of Saint-Denis in the now heavily migrant-populated suburbs of Paris was also vandalised, with the basilica’s organ being heavily damaged and stained glass windows were broken.

Thefts of religious objects have increased since 2016, rising from 121 to 129 in 2018. According to the gendarmes, the robberies are mostly opportunistic because churches are often an easy target. A chalice can be sold for anything between 200 to 2 000 euros.

French authorities arrested a pair of Romanian migrants last year who were suspected to be behind a number of church thefts in both Paris and the suburbs of the city. The pair had allegedly stolen up to 70 000 euros worth of property.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/04/an-average-of-three-church-attacks-per-day-in-multicultural-france/

Notable: >>6187367 Democrats 2020: A fire bigger than Notre Dame.

Moderate Dems Distancing Themselves From the Crazies

Former Dem. Sen. Kerrey: Democrats Are ‘Delusional’ Over Russia Investigation

Nic Rowan

April 15, 2019 10:45 am

Former senator Bob Kerrey (D., Neb.) said that Democrats are suffering from a "delusion" and that President Donald Trump would be right to pardon anyone indicted in the two-year-long investigation conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

"If there is a man or woman who was convicted and sentenced for not telling the truth about a collusion that never happened, I'd like them to be pardoned," Kerrey told The Washington Times in an interview.

Kerrey called out in particular Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Mass.), a frequent and vocal supporter of continuing and expanding the investigation into the possibility of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

"Personally, I would love to hear Schiff say, ‘Enough. There are other committees that can look at this, and we need to get back to the committee's mission of making sure the Department of Defense is spending its money correctly,'" Kerry said. "He could gain a lot of credibility with the American people if we go back to the time when that committee was nonpartisan.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/former-dem-sen-kerrey-democrats-are-delusional-over-russia-investigation/

Notable: POTUS Schedule: "The President’s legal team's letter regarding the requested release of his taxes."

https://twitter.com/45_Schedule/status/1117853719016673281

Notable: Ecuador's Moreno: Assange asylum revoked because he used embassy as 'center for spying'.

Ecuador's Moreno: Assange Asylum Revoked Because He Used Embassy As 'Center For Spying'

Aside from releasing a brief video statement where he attributed the decision to revoke Julian Assange's asylum to the Wikileaks' founders' repeated rule violations, as well as Assange's refusal to stop interfering in global affairs, Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno has remained conspicuously silent in the days since British police entered his country's London mission and arrested Assange on charges of skipping his bail and conspiring to break into a government computer.

But that changed on Sunday, when the Guardian published Moreno's first interview with an English language news organization since Assange's arrest. And in a revelation that appeared to undermine his insistence that Ecuador's decision to revoke Assange's asylum and citizenship wasn't influenced by foreign powers, Moreno changed his story once again, telling the Guardian that Assange had tried to use the embassy as "a center for spying."

This is the first time Moreno has made this allegation.

"Any attempt to destabilize is a reprehensible act for Ecuador, because we are a sovereign nation and respectful of the politics of each country," Moreno said. It is unfortunate that, from our territory and with the permission of authorities of the previous government, facilities have been provided within the Ecuadorian embassy in London to interfere in processes of other states."

"We cannot allow our house, the house that opened its doors, to become a center for spying."

Of course, Assange's arrest came just one day after Wikileaks held a press conference to accuse Ecuador of illegally spying on Assange. Critics, including Moreno's predecessor Rafael Correa, have accused Moreno of bowing to pressure from the US, hoping Assange's arrest would help Ecuador secure a lucrative trade deal or convince the superpower to cancel some of his country's debt. Correa, who championed Assange and was responsible for initially granting him asylum back in 2012, accused Moreno of committing "a crime that humanity will never forget" in deciding to turn over Assange.

Responding to these claims, Moreno called them a "fallacy".

"It is a fallacy that there will be debt relief in exchange of Assange. This statement has been generated and disseminated by groups related to the previous regime that did not want to find a solution to the Assange case beyond having him locked up in our embassy. With the United States, we work on issues of cooperation, trade, culture and security. At no time has Assange’s status been negotiated with that country."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-15/ecuadors-moreno-assange-asylum-revoked-because-he-used-embassy-center-spying

Notable: FBI investigation results in three men sentenced for their planning to bomb an apartment complex with Somali residents.

https://twitter.com/FBISanAntonio/status/1117852877765128194

Notable: >>6187323, >>6187536 A history of fires and explosions in April.

>>6187215 (lb)

Notable

Notable: Michelle Malkin: Obama lied about moving illegal immigrants to communities around the Country.

https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1117500148915949568

#SundayFlashback Here is my June 10, 2014 report I referenced on @JudgeJeanine last night in which I exposed how Obama secretly flew illegal aliens from the border to Hanscom AFB. They lied, denied, then admitted the truth.

Notable: The Notre Dame Cathedral's spire has fallen.

BREAKING: The Notre Dame Cathedral's spire has fallen

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1117851414921801728

what sort of monstrosity will they put in its place?

SMDH

Notable: Macron to visit the scene of Notre Dame fire.

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1117852084181688322

Notable: Port of Los Angeles explosion.

Port of Los Angeles explosion….

https://patch.com/california/palosverdes/san-pedro-explosion-rattles-neighborhood-report

Notable: Macron has cancelled his planned address to the nation due to the "terrible fire" at Notre Dame Cathedral.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1117847238288400384

Macron has cancelled his planned address to the nation due to the "terrible fire" at Notre Dame Cathedral

Notable: DJT Tweet: "So horrible to watch the massive fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out. Must act quickly!"

New DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1117844987293487104

Notable: Marketfag update: Big Tech used money for buybacks instead of hiring.

Big Tech's Big Lie: Instead Of Hiring, Tech Companies Spent Tax Savings On Buybacks

(the Q1 FY19 reports will reflect these guaranteed)

Back in 2017, when they were making their supportive case for Trump's tax cut and offshore tax repatriation holiday, the largest US technology companies promised they would go on hiring sprees and boost the economy. Just over a year after getting what they wanted, fund flow data shows that - contrary to Goldman's recent calculations* - these firms gave most of their huge tax savings to investors in the form of buybacks.

According to Bloomberg calculations, the top 10 US tech companies spent more than $169 billion purchasing their shares in 2018, a record 55% surge from the year before the tax changes.

the industry as a whole authorized the greatest number of share buybacks ever recorded, totaling $387 billion: more than triple the amount in 2017.

Goldman which has written no less than three report in the past month defending stock buybacks that only benefit the company

including insiders whose compensation is frequently linked to stock return, stock repurchases do little if anything for the economy, especially when compared with other potential uses of that money, including hiring more workers.

(A theme here perhaps)

When Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law in the final days of 2017, it cut the corporate tax rate to 21% from 35%, while offshore profits could be repatriated at a special rate of 15.5%, and was meant to encourage companies to bring the money back to the U.S.

They did not. Instead, much of the proceeds were spent on buybacks.

(microsoft actually authorized a huge buyback just after HRC lost in 2016)

Before the law, the largest overseas cash hoards among U.S. companies were held by Apple, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Oracle Corp. and Alphabet.

It is these companies that in the past year unleashed a historic buyback spree the likes of which have never before been seen.

To be fair, not all the tax savings were transferred into investors' pockets: spending on R&D climbed slightly, while capital expenditures rose because Alphabet and Facebook almost doubled spending in that category. On the other hand, Apple and its peers "have yet to bring manufacturing back to the U.S., as President Donald Trump had hoped." And, most importantly, there was no surge in tech hiring.

Here's what we do know about corporate cash use in the past year.

Bloomberg analyzed 2018 spending by 10 of the largest U.S. tech companies: Alphabet, Amazon.com Inc., Apple, Cisco, Facebook, Intel Corp., International Business Machines Corp., Microsoft, Oracle and Qualcomm Inc. The study looked at six common uses of corporate cash: buybacks, dividends, hiring, acquisitions, capital expenditures and research and development. The 2018 statistics were compared with previous years.

Contrary to the abovementioned 55% surge in buybacks, as the top 10 tech companies spent more than $169 billion on buybacks in 2018, up from $109 billion in 2017, hiring fizzled, as worker ranks grew just 8.7% in 2018, versus 24% the year before. Clearly boosting employee numbers was not the key concern for corporate executives.

Finally, the all important "other" category, namely capital expenditures, did surge in 2018, but once again largely to just two companies as Alphabet and Facebook nearly doubled their Capex spending, which includes computers for their huge data centers. That helped boost the overall metric to 40 percent growth, from 23 percent the year before.

Of course, as Bloomberg observes, in many ways these results were foreseeable: In 2004, President George W. Bush launched a similar corporate tax holiday in the U.S. that allowed companies to pay 5.25 percent on overseas profits if they returned the money to the U.S., rather than the standard 35 percent rate. The administration pitched it as a jobs booster, but it was followed by large share repurchases.

Fast forward 12 years, when the largest US companies lied…. again.

When Trump won the 2016 election, some tech companies saw another chance. IBM Chief Executive Officer Ginny Rometty wrote to the president-elect in late 2016, stating that his proposal to cut taxes on businesses and their repatriated overseas earnings would prompt companies to invest domestically.

So what happened next? IBM cut 16,000 workers on a global basis last year, and its R&D budget declined. Capital expenditures increased by less than $166 million, or 5 percent. And while buybacks were relatively unchanged, this followed many years in which IBM repurchase so many shares and issued so much debt to fund these purchases, the company at times was on the verge of losing its pristine investment grade rating.

(like they would EVER do that)

rest at link

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-15/big-techs-big-lie-instead-hiring-tech-companies-spent-tax-savings-buybacks

Notable: DJT Tweet: "Spoke to @TigerWoods to congratulate him on the great victory he had in yesterday’s @TheMasters, & to inform him that because of his incredible Success & Comeback…"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1117843954437767168?s=19

Notable: Macron to unveil new measures against yellow vests.

>>6186523

Yes he was

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-04/15/c_137979546.htm

Notable: Prison for Wichita man convicted of sex trafficking.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/sentence-prison-wichita-man-convicted-sex-trafficking

Notable: >>6186587, >>6186635 Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is on fire.

Wow.

Notre Dame Cathedral on fire.

https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1117837808771784706

Notable: Sen. Whitehouse, a critic of ‘dark money,’ has ties to dark money.

Personally I cant stand this dork

Sen. Whitehouse, A Critic of ‘Dark Money,’ Has Ties to Dark Money

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.), a frequent critic of "dark money" influencing Congress, has connections to Gara LaMarche, the president of Democracy Alliance, a secretive group which helps coordinate funding between left-wing donors and Democratic Congress members.

LaMarche is also the chair of the New Press, who published Whitehouse's 2017 book Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy. Whitehouse and LaMarche toured the book together after its publication.

"I think if Thomas Jefferson and James Madison came back here now and looked around they'd be stunned at a lot of different aspects of our lives," Whitehouse told LaMarche in one of the book talks, according to a report in the Westerly Sun. "But I think one thing that would really astound them would be the fact that corporations have such a big role in our democracy."

In March 2019, Whitehouse delivered a speech on the Senate floor criticizing the Federalist Society for aiding President Donald Trump in selecting nominees for the Supreme Court. On Thursday, he delivered a similar speech, this time criticizing energy companies for influencing legislators to oppose bills addressing climate change, specifically the Green New Deal….

https://freebeacon.com/politics/sen-whitehouse-a-critic-of-dark-money-has-ties-to-dark-money/

Notable: Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare-for-all’ plan includes health care for illegal immigrants.

Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare-for-all’ plan includes health care for ILLEGAL immigrants

Sen. Bernie Sanders’, I-Vt., newly unveiled ‘Medicare-for-all’ plan, backed by a host of other 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls, would open the door to giving health care to illegal immigrants — a marked left-wing departure from past proposals for healthcare reform.

The legislation, unveiled by Sanders this week, and signed onto by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, N.Y., Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., does not speak directly about immigrants but refers to covering U.S. “residents” instead.

https://truepundit.com/bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-plan-includes-health-care-for-illegal-immigrants/

Notable: DJT 9 dots referencing the Q post linking FBI/DOJ with MSM?

9dots total

[FBI [JC][AM][JR][MS][BP][PS][LP][JB][MK][JC][SM][TG][KC]]←————→[[HRC][BC][HA][CM]………][FAKE NEWS]

Notable: Obama adviser's illigetimately made the NYT's best sellers list?

Obama Adviser’s Book Is Ranked 1,030 On Amazon. How Did It Make NYT’s Best Seller List?

Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett’s book is number 1,030 on Amazon with only three reviews, but is on the NYT Best Seller list. An industry insider said that was “inconceivable” and that Jarrett likely paid a company that helps authors buy their way onto the list.

One such company buys 10,000 copies of an author’s book and tries to prevent bestseller lists from realizing the sales aren’t organic, in which case the book may be moved down or taken off the list.

There were 12,600 reported sales of Jarrett’s book, enough to rank it highly on the Publishers Weekly chart, but Publishers Weekly did not put it on its list at all.

Valerie Jarrett, a top adviser to former President Barack Obama, published a book that ranks dismally on Amazon and at Barnes and Noble, but was placed on The New York Times Best Seller list. Anomalies around the book’s sales figures in industry databases have some in the book business questioning whether Jarrett, who’s rumored to have received a million-dollar-plus advance, paid a company to game the numbers. Her book, which was published April 2, is number 1,030 on Amazon’s list of top sellers and has only three reviews on the site. It similarly ranks 1,244 on Barnes and Noble where signed copies are being sold for less than the suggested retail for unsigned copies.

Yet the book was also 14th on the NYT bestseller list. “Given the organic sales of that book and the fact that during the entire week of rollout it barely cracked the top 100 on Amazon, there’s no way the book should have a place on the NYT Best Seller list. Inconceivable,” one prominent book industry insider, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “There’s likely an effort to game the system, it’s the only explanation.“

Jarrett’s book outsold all but the top four books on the NYT list, according to BookScan, which tracks sales figures. But instead of putting it at number five, the Times placed it lower, including behind one book billed as “a behind-the-scenes look at the daytime talk show ‘The View,'” which is seventh. “It should have been number five, except they excluded a big chunk of her sales for being sketchy. They’ve declared shenanigans,” one longtime book editor told TheDCNF also on the condition of anonymity. According to BookScan data, Jarrett’s book “Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward,” sold 12,600 copies in its first week, more than twice as many as the book ranked immediately above it on NYT’s list. The books in NYT’s fifth through 13th slots sold between 4,300 and 9,000 copies. NYT creates its own estimate of book sales from sampling book stores and also adjusts placements higher or lower for various reasons. NYT did not return a request for comment.

Even more baffling to book world insiders, the Publishers Weekly bestsellers list, which is based on BookScan data, omitted Jarrett’s book from their list of top 25 titles, even though it seemingly should have been seventh. “This is the first time that I’ve seen a book that doesn’t show up on the PW list but when you drill into BookScan, you see that it had sales that should have been there,” president of the conservative book publisher Regnery, Marji. The book editor that requested anonymity told TheDCNF: “We all know that when Bookscan excludes a book, then it’s been left off because of something sketchy, a bunch of bulk sales or an unusual geographic spread.” Ross, said. The first industry expert added, “There are some industry sources who don’t think she should be on the list because of fraudulent reporting.” NPD, the company that compiles the BookScan data, did not respond to a request for comment, nor did Publishers Weekly. Publicists with Jarrett’s book publisher, Viking, who normally are proactively engaged with the media around a book launch, did not return request for comment on behalf of itself and Jarrett.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/04/14/valerie-jarrett-book-manipulation/

Notable: How WL and JA was tied into Snowden's travel and asylum applications.

for your MAPs at home re: @Snowden and JA relationship in 2013

https://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/snowden-nsa-cases-secret-story-turmoil-south-america/story?id=19559565

note source is ABC news via UNIVISION

make sure you separate any corroborated FACTS from any possible spin on those

snippet:

Snowden’s transfer

The founder of Wikileaks was behind Snowden’s decision to leave Hong Kong in search of a safer place. Assange was negotiating political asylum for Snowden with the government of Iceland, as he revealed in a press teleconference. On June 23, a day after the creation of the safe-conduct in London, Snowden flew to Moscow accompanied by Julian Assange’s assistant, Sarah Harrison.

Upon his arrival at the Moscow airport, Ecuadorian diplomats tried to meet with Snowden at the airport’s Terminal E, where the hotel is located, according to reports from The Voice of Russia. That same day, Foreign Minister Patiño announced on his Twitter account from Vietnam, where he was visiting, that his government had received an asylum petition from the former U.S. agent.

A Wikileaks spokesperson, Kristinn Hrafnsson, also stated that their organization had helped Snowden apply for asylum with the government of Ecuador.

Snowden’s situation, however, became more complicated the same day he arrived in Moscow, due to the State Department’s announcement that his passport had been revoked.

The next day, Monday the 24th, Assange announced that Snowden was about to travel to Ecuador on a flight making a stop in a third country, possibly Cuba or Venezuela, and said that the former agent was in a safe location inside the Moscow airport, waiting for his transfer to his final destination.

Notable: >>6186024 DJT Tweet: "The Mueller Report, which was written by 18 Angry Democrats who also happen to be Trump Haters (and Clinton Supporters), should have focused on the people who SPIED on my 2016 Campaign…"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1117825163234426882?s=19

Notable: Xi Jinping to attend Osaka G20, says Taro Kono, in China leader's first visit to Japan since 2013.

Xi Jinping to attend Osaka G20, says Taro Kono, in China leader's first visit to Japan since 2013

BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to visit Japan in June to attend this year’s summit of the Group of 20 major economies, in what will be his first trip to the nation since coming to power in 2013, Foreign Minister Taro Kono said Monday.

“His attendance is scheduled,” Kono told reporters in Beijing after meeting separately with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Kono’s Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.

It is also hoped that the visit will be an opportunity for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to hold his first meeting with Xi since a summit in Buenos Aires in November.

Kono said he agreed with Wang to work toward the success of the summit, set to be hosted in Osaka, and boost cooperation between the two countries on various global issues.

“To stabilize Japan-China relations in the truest sense, positive action by China in the East China Sea is necessary,” Kono added. A dispute over the Japanese-controlled and uninhabited Senkaku Islands, which China claims and calls Diaoyu, remains a source of tension between the two countries.

At the outset of the meeting, held at the Zhongnanhai government compound, Li had said, “As neighbors, China and Japan should deepen economic cooperation and cultivate third-country markets for the benefit of not only our two countries but also to ensure a stable recovery in the global economy.”

The Japanese minister said he also asked China to lift restrictions on imports of Japanese food that were put in place after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

In November, China removed a ban on rice grown in Niigata Prefecture, more than 200 kilometers away from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, and has shown willingness to ease restrictions on other Japanese food proven to be safe based on scientific evaluations.

In a blow to Japan’s fishery industry, the World Trade Organization ruled Thursday that South Korea could maintain its import ban on Japanese seafood, reversing an earlier decision that had called for the prohibition to be lifted.

Kono and Wang are also believed to have discussed the resumption of talks on a joint gas development project in the East China Sea based on a 2008 bilateral accord that has since stalled.

On Sunday, the two co-chaired a high-level economic dialogue aimed at deepening cooperation at a time when global growth is slowing.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/15/national/politics-diplomacy/beijing-taro-kono-chinese-premier-li-keqiang-discuss-possible-xi-visit-japan-g20/

Notable: Q Proof: Anon requests a DJT Cher reTweet.

>>6185719

Q PROOF

Notable: >>6185726 DOJ will reportedly make the Mueller report public Thursday morning.

https://twitter.com/JakeBGibson/status/1117818627942748161

Notable: >>6185470 New POTUS Tweets

NEW POTUS

I finally agree with @Cher! https://t.co/i5acSgUrCk

Notable: Breaking: Jihadists launch second big attack on Aleppo city in last 24 hours

Allepo under duress for a 2nd day

Breaking: Jihadists launch second big attack on #Aleppo city in last 24 hours

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-jihadists-launch-second-big-attack-on-aleppo-city-in-last-24-hours/

Notable: Texts and emails Michael Cohen sent in 2015-2016 show Trump Organization had no communication with Putin or Kremlin during campaign

https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1117805494431899648

Notable: Lori Loughlin and her husband plea not guilty to college admissions scandal

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1117805268765691905

Notable: Foreign countries fuelling war in Libya

Arab League envoy: Foreign countries fuelling war in Libya

The Arab League envoy to Libya Salah Eddine Jamali has condemned foreign nations’ interference in Libya, which he says are escalating violence in the divided country.

“There have been daily international interferences in Libya,” he said. “These countries are encouraging the war, not halting the conflict and laying down arms.”

Accusing Libyan politicians of inviting in foreign governments, Al-Jamali called on rivals to “lay down arms and return to the negotiating table”, arguing “violence does not solve problems”.

“The Arab League rejects violence and taking up arms instead of dialogue,” he said. “The league seeks to maintain Libya’s unity and territorial integrity and seeks to bridge the gap in viewpoints.”

The statement comes as renewed military confrontations in Libya approach its second week, after General Khalifa Haftar launched the “Flood of Dignity” campaign on regions in the west of the country, including the capital Tripoli. The move was widely condemned by the international community, who warned that it could plunge the country into active civil war once again.

At least 121 people have been killed and more than 560 have been injured in the violence; the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that 13,500 people have been displaced so far, with only 900 being sent to shelters.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190415-arab-league-envoy-foreign-countries-fuelling-war-in-libya/

Notable: Satellite images show Iran missile factory in Syria destroyed by Israel air strikes

Satellite images show Iran missile factory in Syria destroyed by Israel air strikes

4/4 - If the #bombed site in #Masyaf, #Syria, was indeed a #missile factory, it could allow production and assembly of different #SSM elements or for improving the #accuracy of missiles. #ISI #Iran #VISINT #IMINT pic.twitter.com/SKGhO6FOBF

— ImageSat Intl. (@ImageSatIntl) April 14, 2019

The Israeli intelligence firm, ImageSat International (ISI), yesterday released satellite images claimed to show “the complete destruction of a possible Iranian surface-to-surface missile factory” in Syria’s Masyaf District, allegedly struck by Israel on Saturday.

“The main industrial structures were completely destroyed, including the main hangar and the adjacent three production hangars and buildings. The rest of the structures were affected and damaged by the blast,” the firm said, adding that they “assess that all the elements and/or equipment which were inside are completely destroyed as well.”

Israeli Intel Times news site yesterday reported that the Israeli attack which occurred at 2:30am destroyed dozens of Iranian-made “Earthquake 2” missiles.

According to the site, the Iranian missiles carried warheads weighing up to half a tonne, which could be improved to increase accuracy and range

The site claimed that Iran took advantage of the Israeli elections and delivered two shipments to the military airport in Tifur, Syria.

Meanwhile, Syrian local media reported that the Israeli air forces carried out air strikes against army positions near the city of Masyaf in the Hama province which destroyed some buildings and wounding 25 people.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/72159/satellite-images-show-iran-missile-factory-in-syria-destroyed-by-israel-air.html

Notable: New study: Number of Germans brutally attacked and murdered by migrants doubled in one year

New study: Number of Germans brutally attacked and murdered by migrants doubled in one year

According to statistics published by the Federal Criminal Police Office, Germans are significantly more likely to become victims of a crime committed by an immigrant than vice versa.

Its 2018 report “Crime in the Context of Immigration” analysed statistics of murders, homicides, assaults, robberies and offences against sexual self-determination and personal freedom.

The research set out to determine how many crimes involved “asylum seekers and refugees”, as well as people who are awaiting deportation or already have a residence permit.

230 Germans were killed, which is twice as many as in 2017.

The number of Germans sexually assaulted by asylum seekers and refugees also spiked to 3,260.

In total, almost half of victims of serious crimes by foreign perpetrators (46,336 out of 101,956) were Germans. This is 19 percent more than in 2017.

Data relating to crimes against asylum seekers or refugees allegedly assaulted by a German suspect showed that 8,455 foreigners were victims (24 per cent more than in 2017).

Notably, in 2018, only 18% of foreign victims were hurt or killed by a German suspect. Which means that people seeking asylum are mainly attacked by those with a similar background.

The refugee policy and “open borders” approach, in particular, have prompted criticism against Angela Merkel’s government.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/04/new-study-number-of-germans-brutally-attacked-and-murdered-by-migrants-doubled-in-one-year/

Notable: Super-Creepy Video: Allison Mack sings at Nxivm baby shower

whoa

https://artvoice.com/2019/04/14/super-creepy-video-allison-mack-sings-at-nxivm-baby-shower/

Notable: China Scores Ideological Coup As It Exports Social Engineering Technologies

China Scores Ideological Coup As It Exports Social Engineering Technologies

Cheap manufactured products are not China’s primary exports, but social engineering technologies are. Authoritarian regimes are eagerly adopting China’s dystopian surveillance and censorship technologies, using data and manipulation to maintain their power. ⁃ TN Editor

A swathe of the world is adopting China’s vision for a tightly controlled internet over the unfettered American approach, a stunning ideological coup for Beijing that would have been unthinkable less than a decade ago.

Vietnam and Thailand are among the Southeast Asian nations warming to a governance model that twins sweeping content curbs with uncompromising data controls — because it helps preserve the regime in power. A growing number of the region’s increasingly autocratic governments watched enviously the emergence of Chinese corporate titans from Tencent Holdings Ltd. to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. — in spite of draconian online curbs. And now they want the same.

The more free-wheeling Silicon Valley model once seemed unquestionably the best approach, with stars from Google to Facebook to vouch for its superiority. Now, a re-molding of the internet into a tightly controlled and scrubbed sphere in China’s image is taking place from Russia to India. Yet it’s Southeast Asia that’s the economic and geopolitical linchpin to Chinese ambitions and where U.S.-Chinese tensions will come to a head: a region home to more than half a billion people whose internet economy is expected to triple to $240 billion by 2025.

https://www.technocracy.news/china-scores-ideological-coup-as-it-exports-social-engineering-technologies/

Notable: Hillary Clinton jabs Mnuchin, IRS chief on Tax Day over Trump returns

Hillary Clinton jabs Mnuchin, IRS chief on Tax Day over Trump returns

Hillary Clinton used Tax Day to take a jab at Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig over their refusal to release President Trump’s tax returns.

“Millions of Americans will put tax checks in the mail today. Meanwhile, the secretary of the treasury and head of the IRS continue to refuse to turn over Trump's tax returns to Congress for reasons even they can't clearly articulate,” the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and former secretary of State tweeted Monday.

House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) had requested Trump’s tax returns by April 10, but the Treasury Department missed that deadline.

Mnuchin said at the time that the department was discussing the issue with the Justice Department "to ensure that our response is fully consistent with the law and the Constitution.” Mnuchin has said he would supervise the Treasury’s review "to ensure that taxpayer protections and applicable laws are scrupulously observed, consistent with my statutory responsibilities."

Neal later imposed a new deadline of April 23, telling Rettig "none of the concerns raised can legitimately be used to deny the committee's request."

Trump broke with tradition among presidents and presidential candidates and declined to release his returns, citing an ongoing IRS audit.

Last weekend, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said Democrats would “never” see Trump’s tax returns and said the issue had already been litigated in the 2016 presidential election.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/438900-hillary-clinton-jabs-mnuchin-head-of-the-irs-on-tax-day

'Tradition' is usually a method of control… or at least is has been in 'the church'. Not a fan of using tradition as a means to an end.

Notable: NEW JOHN SOLOMON

NEW JOHN SOLOMON

2020 is the Democrats' to lose — and they very well may, according to Al Hunt, who makes his debut as a Hill opinion columnist. https://t.co/rpUUwRp14B

Notable: NY Dems reject tuition aid for Gold Star kids after doling out millions for illegal students

NY Dems reject tuition aid for Gold Star kids after doling out millions for illegal students

New York State Assembly Democrats denied hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition money to relatives of Gold Star veterans on Tuesday but granted $27 million for illegal aliens' college tuition in a state budget earlier in April.

In a 15-11 vote, New York's Assembly Higher Education Committee decided not to allocate more money to a $2.7 million program that currently helps 145 students related to or dependent on disabled and deceased combat veterans to pay college tuition, the New York Post reported.

“We have a moral obligation, a social obligation to help those families who lost their provider, their loved one, in service to this nation"

“We will make every effort to ensure going forward, we have some additional resources allocated to the program so that as an entitlement, it is not falling short of the needs of our military families,” Democrat Assemblywoman Deborah Glick said, according to the Post.

“Assemblywoman Glick should be ashamed of herself,” Republican state Sen. Robert Ortt, who sponsored the proposed funding, said. “We set aside $27 million dollars for college for people that are here illegally…apparently $2.7 million is all that the families of soldiers who are killed, get. If you’re a child of a fallen soldier, you do not rank as high and you know that by the money.”

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=12105

Notable: Turkish Lira Tumbles On Soaring Unemployment, "Absolute Shitshow" Investor Meeting

Turkish Lira Tumbles On Soaring Unemployment, "Absolute Shitshow" Investor Meeting

The collapse in the Turkish lira is accelerating this morning, with the USDTRY rising above 5.80 for the first time since last October and CDS pushing to September highs, as the Turkish economy continues to slide ever deeper into recession, with the country on Monday reporting that a whopping 366,000 people became unemployed in the last month, sending the country's jobless rate to the highest level in a decade.

With Ankara trapped, unwilling to let the lira devalue on fears of capital outflows even as inflation surges while the economy is urgently in need of a weaker currency, unemployment rose far more than forecast, rising to 14.7% in January - the highest since 2009.

from 13.5% a month earlier, according to Turkstat data; the number of people without jobs has reached 4.7 million people, with youth unemployment jumping to 26.7%, the highest on record.

As Bloomberg summarizes "the severity of the job losses despite a last-ditch spending blitz by the government underscores the economic challenges facing Turkey after it entered its first recession in a decade following a currency rout last year that touched off inflation."

The most recent dismal economic data comes at a time when Erdogan's undisputed control over Turkey appears to be slipping following the recent local elections, where many of the municipalities won by the opposition from the ruling party were those where unemployment is running in double digits, official data show. As such, the political headache for the "executive president" is only set to grow as the country finds itself deeper and deeper in what is rapidly developing as a full-blown economic depression.

Meanwhile, investors were also concerned by ongoing speculation that the ruling AKP will challenge the Istanbul election outcome which saw Turkey's most important city flip control to the opposition, after Erdogan’s candidate lost the mayoral race in Turkey’s largest city to Ekrem Imamoglu, a blow for Islamists who had controlled Istanbul since 1994. “We are going to ask for fresh elections in Istanbul by using our right to make an extraordinary objection,” said Ali Ihsan Yavuz, a deputy head of the AKP.

The silver lining: as investors once again shun Turkey, its currency still remains solidly higher than the lows it plumbed last August. The not so silver lining: this will likely not be the case for long, with the lira sliding to 6 months lows as Turkish CDS* continue to blow out ever wider.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-15/turkish-lira-tumbles-soaring-unemployment-absolute-shitshow-investor-meeting

CDS= Credit Default Swaps

What is a Credit Default Swap (CDS)?

A credit default swap (CDS) is a financial derivative or contract that allows an investor to "swap" or offset his or her credit risk with that of another investor. For example, if a lender is worried that a borrower is going to default on a loan, the lender could use a CDS to offset or swap that risk. To swap the risk of default, the lender buys a CDS from another investor who agrees to reimburse the lender in the case the borrower defaults. Most CDS will require an ongoing premium payment to maintain the contract, which is like an insurance policy.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/creditdefaultswap.asp

or in JPM's case it is like taking out an insurance policy on your neighbor's house and then setting it on fire.

from March 23rd:

Turkish watchdogs to probe JP Morgan after lira plunge

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey’s banking watchdog said it had launched an investigation into JP Morgan and other banks over complaints it received after the lira plunged more than 4 percent and the main share index fell sharply on Friday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-banks-idUSKCN1R40OS